1953 Subway Token - Filled/Solid Y

Was curious as to how much the initial 1953 Subway Token was worth.

There is one on Ebay now in rough shape.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...e=STRK:MEWA:IT

I have one in MINT condition and wanted to know its value.
Not much info on the net regarding these rare tokens...

"Ron Rodan" wrote in message
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Was curious as to how much the initial 1953 Subway Token was worth.

There is one on Ebay now in rough shape.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...e=STRK:MEWA:IT

I have one in MINT condition and wanted to know its value.
Not much info on the net regarding these rare tokens...

It's neither rare nor particularly valuable. Atwood-Coffee, 5th Edition,
prices it at $0.35.

I believe you are mis-informed. This is not the 1980-86 version.

It was used from June to September 1953, produced by the Osborne
Coinage Company and Scoville Manufacturing Co. By September, the Y
cutout was used in its place up until 1966.

The one on Ebay is up to $19.95, will see where it goes...


The less common tokens
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:46:32 -0500, "Steve Grant"
wrote:

"Ron Rodan" wrote in message
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Was curious as to how much the initial 1953 Subway Token was worth.

There is one on Ebay now in rough shape.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...e=STRK:MEWA:IT

I have one in MINT condition and wanted to know its value.
Not much info on the net regarding these rare tokens...

It's neither rare nor particularly valuable. Atwood-Coffee, 5th Edition,
prices it at $0.35.

"Ron Rodan" wrote in message
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I believe you are mis-informed. This is not the 1980-86 version.

You may choose to take the A-C catalog values with a grain of salt -- at
least one eBay bidder seems to have done so. But no, I'm not misinformed.

Those subway tokens can't be rare because my dad gave me dozens of them.
My dad gave me another NYC token with a diamond shape hole through the
coin, I think it might be a NYC transit authority commem, my dad told me
those tokens were used for a very short time.

Ron wrote: Was curious as to how much the initial 1953 Subway token was
worth? snip The price was five cents. Ed

"Edward McGrath" wrote in message
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Ron wrote: Was curious as to how much the initial 1953 Subway token was
worth? snip The price was five cents. Ed

For the record, this past January I bought one of these (NY 630 AN, die
variety "a") from a dealer for $0.50.