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Remember when you had to use tokens to take the bus
>>2048506 (OP)Here it wasnt tokens, but tickets for single fares
>>2048506 (OP)>>2048560Fuck me, forgot the image
>>2048506 (OP)I remember when the EU was just a trade treaty supposedly designed to benefit member states instead of the fascist police state that it is now ruling over all member states
https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/token-sucking/
The token era on the NYC subway spawned the “token sucker”. Jam some paper in the slot, wait for someone to insert a token and walk away in frustration, then suck up your prize.
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Slugs and cheap foreign coins used to fake NYC subway tokens
>>2048752two of those are literally just regular US quarters
>>2048757looks like their edges are shaved to match the weight of a token, note how one is obviously smaller than the other
>>2048757Didn’t see that. I guess it makes sense if the fare was more than a quarter. Most of the top rows are tokens from other systems, some of which I have in my collection.