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[sgandtg]

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...6180538814&rd=1

£14.60 in tokens for only £12.99 cash.

Dont all bid at once.

[ady]

lol.........better deal buying a Pound coin for £1.50 than that one.

[jay2]

Shall i make a bid of £14.65?

Just as a (ahem)token gesture

[pt05]

bet no machines take them now days thay must date from 1980's

[Bencrest]

They are useful if you have a machine [Andy Capp say] which pays out 20p Tokens. Having said that, someone else is selling 150 of the damn things for about a fiver, which gives you some idea of their value.

Some tokens can still be used, 50p RAL 'Quicksilver' as an example ;P

[yorkie07808]

lol.........better deal buying a Pound coin for £1.50 than that one.

funny you should say that lol take a look at this then

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...3975816089&rd=1

any takers

[pt05]

omfg i have a two of them!!

[pt05]

has any one seen the new £5 coins?

[Gazeyre1966]

Crikey...I've got around £20 worth of tokens going back to the 80's. Much older than that £1 coin. Reckon I could get £50 for 'em?

Highest bidder accepted. No quibbles....lol

[kensplace2]

Wonder if anyone has minted their own tokens when they were popular years ago. Not even sure if it would be illegal, as its not actual currency is it?
Who knows....

[ady]

Could be looked at as obtaining money by deception?.....Then £6 of tokens produced 40p cash, nah can't see any prob's..lol


There was a time though when you could exchange for smokes and beers if you won tokens in the pub. I was early 20's and a mate worked in a VERY LARGE arcade and he got a few (don't know how ) and we went to a town pub and drank all night, blimey when the engineer came to 'cash' them the penny must have really dropped

[kensplace2]

I remember going on holiday to berwick as a kid, and the engineer would come round every friday, as it was the last night the kids would have before
going home the next day. He would open all the arcade machines up, and stick a load of free credits on for us. Those were the days, although getting free tokens for drinks sounds even nicer

[Zoltar]

Dad will confirm this....

Teddies Amusements here and around Hull still use tokens and these tokens (20p type) have a piccy of their company logo on them. A sort of weird looking teddy bear. Come to think of it, I have about £50 worth in my Jackpot 7's of that very same variety.

Tokens are here to stay I thinks as Teddies Amusements with cafe's give out special silver 50p tokens. You buy a £1.99 meal and recieve 2 x 50p tokens that fit ALL of their machines. you put them through the normal multi-coin accepter too. So you get a pound of free plays when you buy a meal. The tokens are about the same size as the old and long withdrawn 10p pieces although they are a lot lighter. The machines don't pay out these tokens as they drop straight into the cash box. So they are strictly for giving credits.

Last week, Sally and I went into the Endike Lane branch for something to eat. I had double sausage, double egg, chips and beans whilst Sally had steak pie, chips, beans and gravy (both meals just £1.99 each) plus a couple of coffees. A fiver for dinner. Recieved 4 tokens and put them into a 10p play Hurricane and won my cash back. So a free dinner in the end.

Tony

[WARNEZ]

The bloke who is selling the Token's I bet I know what happened there.

Similar thing happened to me a few years ago (I still can’t explain why he is trying to sell them on Ebay but I will continue my story anyway).

At lunchtime in Kebab shop in my home town, large Doner, can of Fanta and the change in 1's please mate.......

Do you want chili sauce on that mate........you get the feel

Anyway hour lunch break during which I got two £8 jackpots paid out in tokens, pressed for time had to go back to work with pocket full of tokens.

Next day thought I will go and get rid of these glorified washers only to find the machine had been replaced. The new machine took tokens, but not the same ones. I asked the women behind the counter can I exchange them for food, drinks - the reply was Foxtrot Oscar - or the Turkish equivalent.

So I as well have a money bag with £12 worth of tokens in it.

I have not been in the Kebab shop since, but remember using their toilet whilst in town. I wrote my name on the wall (not using a pen if you catch my drift).



WARNEZ