The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 38, September 4, 2005, Article 16

HEAVY TRADING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE TOKENS

On September 1, the Concord Monitor reported on the final
days of the New Hampshire turnpike token. Dick Johnson
alerted us to this event back in the May 15th, 2005 issue
(v8n20). The tokens picture the now-gone Old Man in the
Mountain landmark.

"Most of the phone calls Jon Hanson answered yesterday
were from two kinds of people.

"There's the whole group of people who can't buy enough
tokens on the last day,"Hanson said, ". . . and there's this other
group - it's about 50/50 - who want cash back for the tokens
they bought."

If the two camps could have somehow gotten together,
Hanson's problems would have been solved. As it was, the
assistant administrator of the state Bureau of Turnpikes and his
staff had to listen to every caller's comments about the end of
sales of highway tokens. The 50-percent discount coins, made
of a brass-and-nickel alloy and imprinted with an image of the
Old Man of the Mountain, can be used through the end of the
year, but as of midnight last night, they're no longer for sale.

After declining use since July 11, when some drivers began using
the new E-ZPass system, tokens are enjoying one last run of
popularity."

"Sales numbers weren't available, but so many people bought
rolls of tokens during the morning rush hour that some toll stations,
including those on the Seacoast and in Hooksett, began limiting
motorists to one roll apiece until more could be delivered."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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