<< <i>I have about 20+ cool old Adult booth tokens from Baltimore Maryland once called the Block.. 14th Street Nw Washington Dc, Alantic City NJ, Reno, Las Vegas and Hollywood Ca.... >>
You need to clean them at least twice with acetone. >>
A couple of months ago I was at the Wilsonville play center with my grandson, we got 100 tokens to play with and I couldn't help but notice that some were new, as in MS-67 new. so I kept 3 of the best and put them in flips when i got home. My g/f thinks I'm crazy but like I told her if I don't save some, who will?
My nine year old daughter came home from a party on day and told me she brought home a few tokens, one was her birth year, and the other two were bright and new, or as she said uncirculated. We put them in two by two's and put them in her binder. I guess this qualifies her as a collector.
<< <i>not hijack but what about these? get one coin with every 5gal. of sunoco back in the early 60's
the old man collected EVERYTHING! >>
I'm afraid they're pretty common. The problem was you could just buy a set and a lot of people did. Now some of these game pieces are very scarce and possibly even unknown today. Like Shell's Mr President Game pieces tend to be exceedingly common or scarce dependent on the president. The game was structured to encourage redemption of all the tougher issues and these appear to have been destroyed. If memory serves this was the first of these and dates to 1968. It was extremely popular and there were more game pieces struck by the Franklin Mint. There appear to be three distinct series with little variation in their availability. The artwork and quality on these is superb.
It's really pretty difficult to even learn what medals were produced. Material from the time is sometimes ambiguous and I still find issues that I hadn't known existed.
Of course the attrition on all these issues is still quite high and those that once numbered in the millions are certainly not so easily found today.
Dang it. I might just start a collection of these. The question now is, how do I obtain them? Something feels weird about a middle-aged man walking into a Chuck E. Cheese alone and buying a bunch of tokens.
<< <i>I have about 20+ cool old Adult booth tokens from Baltimore Maryland once called the Block.. 14th Street Nw Washington Dc, Alantic City NJ, Reno, Las Vegas and Hollywood Ca >>
Were they crusty?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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<< <i>Dang it. I might just start a collection of these. The question now is, how do I obtain them? Something feels weird about a middle-aged man walking into a Chuck E. Cheese alone and buying a bunch of tokens. >>
There's no reason to be embarrassed and even less reason to walk into a Chuck-e-cheese. The best bet is to get some to start a collection by buying bulk lots in the coin paper classifieds. Don't pay much. If postage isn't a big consideration you may be over paying. Let the seller know your interest as he might just have exactly what you want. Watch dealers' junk boxes and remember you might get a substantial break even from 25c each or 5 for $1 if all you take are amusement tokens. Once you get a few dupli- cates you can start offering to trade. You'll quickly find other col- lectors. You can also join the Token and Medal Society to speed up the process. Early on you'll want bulk without excessive dupli- cation. You'll never get rid of a couple thousand of the same token even if it's a desirable one.
You might find a few at less expected sources like flea markets and garage sales. Watch eBay though this might not be much help since these are very inexpensive and postage and transaction fees can be murder.
The less specialization you want in these oddball areas the more successfull you may be. If you just collect CEC it will make it more difficult to find trading partners and it's not like these show up just anywhere. Try at least including other pizza places and maybe even video arcade. If you're paying only a little bit it's a matter of the effort involved rather than cost and the effort doesn't have to be that great. At least there's not much heavy lifting in CEC tokens or video arcade. There are lots of very similar tokens to CEC like Ballys and some of the gambling and fast food tokens. Even a few McDonalds have used tokens of this sort. It's a big world of tokens out there and this is just one small category of them.
Someone has to save them for the future or there really won't be any.
<< <i>I have about 20+ cool old Adult booth tokens from Baltimore Maryland once called the Block.. 14th Street Nw Washington Dc, Alantic City NJ, Reno, Las Vegas and Hollywood Ca.... >>
You need to clean them at least twice with acetone. >>
They may be already cleaned if you know what I mean..
<< <i>I have about 20+ cool old Adult booth tokens from Baltimore Maryland once called the Block.. 14th Street Nw Washington Dc, Alantic City NJ, Reno, Las Vegas and Hollywood Ca >>
Were they crusty? >>
Seriously, Mint Unc, probably could grade ms 64.. Clean as a whistle.. But, again these were never used into the booths.. They were available in the case with the lubes, and other adult buzz toys.. Yea, I had to see what was all the fuzz was about, why Larry Flint took a bullet for his business.. Hell, I went in and got out before gun shots started inside there.. All I heard was noises and stuff like, hey mo fo, I been waiting for that booth for 15 minutes.. They I would here, clean up in booth number 15 and 16..
One more thing two of them are pure silver, the Tracy Lords was a 1/4 oz of real silver..
OK, I was able to lay hold of my Chuck e cheese token collection so will provide a little information for those interested. I've never put much effort into this set and suspect it's far larger than my meagher collection. I have 61 different versions including eight or ten of the related Show Biz Pizza tokens. I have most dates from 1977 to 1997 inclusive and none later. Many of these are varieties and various mint marks. I always upgrade when I get a chance but conditions are not good. There's a single unc and a few sliders but most are XF/ AU at best. A few are pretty bad and probably scarcer issues.
It would appear that it's not collectors who remove these from the stores or they'd be in much better shape but are mostly those which are just left over after an outting.
Went through a large box of tokens collected from honor snack boxes in the early 90's (they stuck tokens in so co-workers would think they were paying)
i hate CEC!!! ...my son keeps getting invited to parties there...
<< <i>It would appear that it's not collectors who remove these from the stores or they'd be in much better shape but are mostly those which are just left over after an outting. >>
i have a bunch in a cup...
the last time we went (dec 09) they no longer offered tokens! they had a 'debit card' (w/a leash) some hygenic issue or something...
I only have one Chuck E. Cheese token in my collection. Almost certainly it was from a birthday party I went to back in grade school. I don't remember who the party was in honor of, (I was 10 in 1994) but I have the token.
I was never a big fan of Chuck E Cheese. I am allergic to tomatos and they would not make their pizza without sauce, so we never went there. That one party was the one and only time I was there, though my mom has been back at various birthday parties of family friends. I am anti-social so I didn't go to any of them.
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<< <i>I have about 20+ cool old Adult booth tokens from Baltimore Maryland once called the Block.. 14th Street Nw Washington Dc, Alantic City NJ, Reno, Las Vegas and Hollywood Ca.... >>
You need to clean them at least twice with acetone.
or bleach!
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<< <i> I wonder how much my Tracy Lords tokens are worth. >>
Film maker John Waters might be interested in that.
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<< <i>not hijack but what about these? get one coin with every 5gal. of sunoco back in the early 60's
the old man collected EVERYTHING! >>
I'm afraid they're pretty common. The problem was you could just buy a set
and a lot of people did. Now some of these game pieces are very scarce and
possibly even unknown today. Like Shell's Mr President Game pieces tend to
be exceedingly common or scarce dependent on the president. The game was
structured to encourage redemption of all the tougher issues and these appear
to have been destroyed. If memory serves this was the first of these and dates
to 1968. It was extremely popular and there were more game pieces struck by
the Franklin Mint. There appear to be three distinct series with little variation in
their availability. The artwork and quality on these is superb.
It's really pretty difficult to even learn what medals were produced. Material
from the time is sometimes ambiguous and I still find issues that I hadn't known
existed.
Of course the attrition on all these issues is still quite high and those that once
numbered in the millions are certainly not so easily found today.
US and British coin collector, and creator of The Ultimate Chuck E. Cheese's and Showbiz Pizza Place Token & Ticket Guide
<< <i>I have about 20+ cool old Adult booth tokens from Baltimore Maryland once called the Block.. 14th Street Nw Washington Dc, Alantic City NJ, Reno, Las Vegas and Hollywood Ca >>
Were they crusty?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
<< <i>Dang it. I might just start a collection of these. The question now is, how do I obtain them? Something feels weird about a middle-aged man walking into a Chuck E. Cheese alone and buying a bunch of tokens.
There's no reason to be embarrassed and even less reason to
walk into a Chuck-e-cheese. The best bet is to get some to start
a collection by buying bulk lots in the coin paper classifieds. Don't
pay much. If postage isn't a big consideration you may be over
paying. Let the seller know your interest as he might just have
exactly what you want. Watch dealers' junk boxes and remember
you might get a substantial break even from 25c each or 5 for $1
if all you take are amusement tokens. Once you get a few dupli-
cates you can start offering to trade. You'll quickly find other col-
lectors. You can also join the Token and Medal Society to speed
up the process. Early on you'll want bulk without excessive dupli-
cation. You'll never get rid of a couple thousand of the same token
even if it's a desirable one.
You might find a few at less expected sources like flea markets and
garage sales. Watch eBay though this might not be much help since
these are very inexpensive and postage and transaction fees can
be murder.
The less specialization you want in these oddball areas the more
successfull you may be. If you just collect CEC it will make it more
difficult to find trading partners and it's not like these show up just
anywhere. Try at least including other pizza places and maybe even
video arcade. If you're paying only a little bit it's a matter of the effort
involved rather than cost and the effort doesn't have to be that great.
At least there's not much heavy lifting in CEC tokens or video arcade.
There are lots of very similar tokens to CEC like Ballys and some of
the gambling and fast food tokens. Even a few McDonalds have used
tokens of this sort. It's a big world of tokens out there and this is
just one small category of them.
Someone has to save them for the future or there really won't be any.
<< <i>
<< <i>I have about 20+ cool old Adult booth tokens from Baltimore Maryland once called the Block.. 14th Street Nw Washington Dc, Alantic City NJ, Reno, Las Vegas and Hollywood Ca.... >>
You need to clean them at least twice with acetone.
They may be already cleaned if you know what I mean..
<< <i>
<< <i>I have about 20+ cool old Adult booth tokens from Baltimore Maryland once called the Block.. 14th Street Nw Washington Dc, Alantic City NJ, Reno, Las Vegas and Hollywood Ca >>
Were they crusty?
Seriously, Mint Unc, probably could grade ms 64.. Clean as a whistle.. But, again these were never used into the booths.. They were available in the case with the lubes, and other adult buzz toys.. Yea, I had to see what was all the fuzz was about, why Larry Flint took a bullet for his business.. Hell, I went in and got out before gun shots started inside there.. All I heard was noises and stuff like, hey mo fo, I been waiting for that booth for 15 minutes.. They I would here, clean up in booth number 15 and 16..
One more thing two of them are pure silver, the Tracy Lords was a 1/4 oz of real silver..
Just start at every coin shop by going through the junk box. Print out a roster of the tokens and you are on your way .............
http://users.pullman.com/fjstevens/tokens/cec/CEC.html
so will provide a little information for those interested. I've never
put much effort into this set and suspect it's far larger than my
meagher collection. I have 61 different versions including eight
or ten of the related Show Biz Pizza tokens. I have most dates
from 1977 to 1997 inclusive and none later. Many of these are
varieties and various mint marks. I always upgrade when I get
a chance but conditions are not good. There's a single unc and
a few sliders but most are XF/ AU at best. A few are pretty bad
and probably scarcer issues.
It would appear that it's not collectors who remove these from the
stores or they'd be in much better shape but are mostly those
which are just left over after an outting.
<< <i>how do I obtain them
Just start at every coin shop by going through the junk box. Print out a roster of the tokens and you are on your way .............
http://users.pullman.com/fjstevens/tokens/cec/CEC.html >>
Great link!
Check out some of the links provided here as well. These are truly remarkable.
The guy is paying up to $1000 for some tokens he needs.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
<< <i>This is the one with the $1000 bounty!
Your joking ? ....right ?
No.
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Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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<< <i>Your joking ? ....right ? >>
I see no reason why somebody wouldn't pay $1,000 for the right token.
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<< <i>A little voice inside my head says "If you don't, nobody else will!" >>
That is too funny.........
<< <i>It would appear that it's not collectors who remove these from the
stores or they'd be in much better shape but are mostly those
which are just left over after an outting. >>
i have a bunch in a cup...
the last time we went (dec 09) they no longer offered tokens! they had a 'debit card' (w/a leash)
some hygenic issue or something...
I was never a big fan of Chuck E Cheese. I am allergic to tomatos and they would not make their pizza without sauce, so we never went there. That one party was the one and only time I was there, though my mom has been back at various birthday parties of family friends. I am anti-social so I didn't go to any of them.