The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 4, January 25, 2004, Article 11

MINT TOKENS

  Last week we asked, "Do many mints around the world use
  ...  tokens or scrip within their walls?   David Lange writes:
  "I have a collection of three brass tokens denominated at 5, 10
  and 25 cents that formerly were used by employees of the San
  Francisco Mint. They date from the 1980s and are no longer
  used, the mint having since switched to a debit-card system to
  avoid any stray metal finding its way into coin presses.

  Unfortunately, the tokens don't indicate that they were
  intended for the mint.  In fact, they're completely generic and
  were probably used at other facilities, too.  I know they were
  ex San Francisco Mint only because they were given to me
  by an employee at the time."

  Scott Semans writes: I've handled metal canteen (cafeteria)
  tokens for Shanghai (China) and both Calcutta and Bombay
  (India) Mints.  In fact, there are at least two series for
  Calcutta.  The India are guesstimated at 1960s-80s while the
  Shanghai are probably 1980s-90s.  The Indian tokens carry
  denominations while the Chinese seem to be good-fors as
  one has a legend translating as "vegetable".

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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