NEED SOME HELP ON OLD TOKEN:

[artzstuff1]

This was found in 2003 by a friend,, just wants to know some info,,year , value ,, any help would be cool,,

was found in piper city il.??

thanks

arthur

 

[idahotokens]

Per the Atwood catalog of transportation tokens, yours is IL 685F. It says the Illinois Power Company sold the Peoria streetcar (and apparently bus) system to the Peoria Transportation Co. in September, 1946 and the streetcar part of the business was discontinued the next week. Peoria Transportation Co. operated the system until December, 1951 when they sold to Peoria Transit Lines. Your token therefore was made somewhere between October, 1946 and December, 1951, probably in the earlier part of that range. Atwood also says that the use of tokens was discontinued in August, 1953. They show a catalog value of 15¢ which probably is about 10% of current collector value.

John in ID

 

[artzstuff1]

Per the Atwood catalog of transportation tokens, yours is IL 685F. It says the Illinois Power Company sold the Peoria streetcar (and apparently bus) system to the Peoria Transportation Co. in September, 1946 and the streetcar part of the business was discontinued the next week. Peoria Transportation Co. operated the system until December, 1951 when they sold to Peoria Transit Lines. Your token therefore was made somewhere between October, 1946 and December, 1951, probably in the earlier part of that range. Atwood also says that the use of tokens was discontinued in August, 1953. They show a catalog value of 15¢ which probably is about 10% of current collector value.

John in ID

You nailed it!!!! first reply ,,,pretty interesting stuff there,,,you are the token king,,,


thanks

arthur

 

[allen]

good id on that neat token !