Found in change (plus mystery token)

robertpr

Here are two quarters I picked up at face value, plus some kind of token that was with the quarters. My cost for this lot: 50¢. The 1964-D looks like it took quite a scrubbing.

Both sides of the token are shown in the third image: it's the same design on both sides. There's no date, and I'm not a token collector, does anybody know when this might have been issued and why?

TomB

It's the Old Man on the Mountain profile on a NH token that appears to have been issued to use on toll roads or toll bridges.

JRocco

<< <i>It's the Old Man on the Mountain profile on a NH token that appears to have been issued to use on toll roads or toll bridges. >>



You mean the face that broke off the mountain shortly after the state quarter was minted?

What a shame. It will soon be a profile long forgotten.

coindeuce

I-93 is a toll road in eastern N.H., and is a main North/South commuter route for metro Boston workers and Pease ANGB workers in Portsmouth.

ProofArtworkonCircs

The New Hampshire item is a token for use on toll roads many years back.
If I remember correctly, they paid 25 cents towards your toll, but you could buy rolls of tokens at half that price.
There was also a smaller cheaper silver colored token at one time.
Nowadays you can breeze through the toll places at full speed with the electronic passes.
I can remember 4 toll roads in New Hampshire.

felinfoel

<< <i>The New Hampshire item is a token for use on toll roads many years back.
If I remember correctly, they paid 25 cents towards your toll, but you could buy rolls of tokens at half that price.
There was also a smaller cheaper silver colored token at one time.
Nowadays you can breeze through the toll places at full speed with the electronic passes.
I can remember 4 toll roads in New Hampshire. >>



Yes, they are now retired in place of EZ Pass.

They are the same size as arcade tokens. So people bought rolls of them from the toll booth operators for 12.5 cents each, and played video games for half price.

USMarine6

I think I still have a roll of those tokens somewhere. After they stopped using them at the toll booths Mcdonalds accepted them same as cash for about a month if I remember correctly

windwhispersintrees

I remember my family using that one on the roads in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I've seen them also sometimes with a small punched through letter...maybe a "D"?
I own a smaller diameter one, in addition to a few of the one pictured. I'd never seen the smaller diameter version until recently when it was found a in a collection of misc. saved pocket change. The smaller size is in a different metal I think.