Israel post telephone token


Israel post telephone token Israel post telephone token
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General Description : 2.8mm thick with a hole in the center
Telephone tokens were once widespread medium of exchange for people wanting to talk on public phones with someone before there were telephone cards to collect and use. These tokens were once widely used in Europe, Israel, Japan, and South America.
On tokens from 1981 and 1982 is the text "Ministry of Communications" (משרד התקשורת, Misrad Hatikshoret)
Israeli telephone token, or asimon, used until the late 1980s
Front Description : the year of issue in Hebrew calendar
below, the word "telephone" in Hebrew and Arabic
Back Description : The text "Israel Postal Company" (Do'ar Yisrael) in Hebrew.
1234567890 (mimic a rotary telephone dial)
דואר
ישראל
Diameter 19.00 mm
Weight 5.20 g
Material Billon
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