My first Token...

[Smokey]

This is my first token which I found down in Houston Lake, Houston Tx along clad and a silver liberty half dollar (already posted a couple of days ago). I went ahead and kind of cleansed up my token ....sure looks nice.

How old can it be

 

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[Functional]

Nice token. A little pitting but nice. Found one online that looks alot cleaner if you want to compare:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/petromyzon/26042454/in/set-587315/

Anything on the reverse side?

F.

 

[Smokey]

Thanks for your input. Here is the reverse.

 

[ringfinder]

I found one of those car wash tokens. I think it might be a shell car wash token.

I am including a picture of the one I found near a Shell Gas station.

HH, Ringfinder

 

[Yarrum]

What a great find, that's a keeper for sure.

 

[scoutjim99]

Interesting

 

[idahotokens]

It is a generic car wash token - there are carwashes still using them. When they bought the vending stuff to run the carwash, they had the option of going with generic tokens or having ones made up that had their name on them. It cost more, of course, to have the latter made up, but the downside was they lost any advertising value the token might have. There is nothing (aside from the size of the token) preventing either type being used in any coin-op (they really are token-op, since the size is a bit different than a quarter) carwash today.
John in ID