For many years in our pockets they circulated in large quantities telephone tokens. You must know, that so as for coinsthe story of the tokens is full of rare and precious specimens that are worth a fortune. The first telephone token was produced in 1927; the STIPEL (Piedmontese and Lombard Interregional Telephone Company) coined it on the occasion of the Milan Trade Fair. From 1984 until 2001the value of a token was that of 200 lire, until then Telecom replaced them with the 2,000 lire telephone cards. From 1927 onwards, it is estimated that the SIP he stopped definitively to mint tokens as they had come into circulation the first public telephones with the magnetic card. But what are some of these tokens worth nowadays? Here you are a short guide to identify its value.
Tokens of value
What you see in the picture is the classic example of a telephone token. To establish the price, we must, first of all, decree the date thanks to 4 small numbers engraved at the bottom. In this case, the figure 7603 clearly indicates that this token was issued in the month of March of 1976. There are, however, as for coins, the so-called minting errors; on the back of this token, for example, it is engraved a one-time phone. Do you think that on the well-known e-commerce for sale online Ebay, a similar token is on sale for € 440 has a minting error; the telephone is engraved in an upside-down manner, thus resulting, with respect to the other side, at all effects upside down.
The first minted token by STIPEL in 1927instead, it is authenticor heirloom of Italian numismatics and is sold at an insane amount over € 950. Here too, however, it all depends on the their state of conservation; as for money, it is above all the conditions in which a specimen is found a decree the price; it all depends, therefore, the year of issue and the state in which it is located.
