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i think these were rfid'ed tokens. instead of paper tickets (as used in seoul), if you purchased a single-fare, you were issued a paper 'coin' which you passed over an embedded scanner before entering the train platform; when exiting, you deposit it into a slot in order to get out. gwangju's subway is brand new, and based on my one ride through it, used primarily by seniors and students who attend the university located on the one end of its single line. most gwangju-ites regard it as a useless piece of politically-motivated infrastructure.
Compare this piece to the brass piece in the album. The Frank side dies are slightly different (look at CAL. in relation to FRANCISCO). I am not sure where NCS got the Good For 12.5C from as this is a store card. I am not sure where they got the 1860 as the catalogs say 1867-1870.
FORT CARSON, Colo. – Specialist Jamie Isaacson, health care specialist, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, presents Cheryl Wright, wife of incoming commander Lt. Col. Joshua Wright, 1st CAB, 67th Armor Regt. with a bouquet of rose buds during the battalion change of command ceremony at Fort Carson’s Manhart Field, May 29, 2012. The “Death Dealers” presented both the incoming and outgoing commander’s wives with a small token of appreciation.
(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Porch, 2nd BCT PAO, 4th Inf. Div.)
One of two machines on platform 1 of Tenby station (from which the majority of trains head for Pembroke Dock), this machine receives the tokens used to travel from Tenby on to the terminus at Pembroke Dock.
When a Whitland bound train, which has originated in Pembroke Dock, enters the opposite platform (platform 2) a similar token is able to be released from the corresponding machine in the cabin on that platform, which allows that train to proceed to Whitland.
In the meantime, by the driver on platform 2 releasing the Tenby - Pembroke Dock token in his cabin, the train on platform 1 can proceed to the Dock.
Sheesh! I hope I got that right. I'm happy to be corrected.
My photo-summer wouldn't have been complete without a late-August shot of some sunflowers. It was hot, hot, hot that day, so I included the burning sun in the frame to give everybody a taste of that.
To make it slightly different than my (and everybody else's) previous sunflower shots, I went a bit crazy with the processing -- for my standards, that is. I also chose a square crop (I felt like copying Brad's idea).
There are two train systems in Bangkok, the Skytrain (or BTS) and the subway (or MRT). Here is a subway token. It's a funny little magnetized black plastic disc that you just tap on the turnstile for access.
Please be aware... I am no coin expert. Titles here are either what I was told when acquiring these or are from a simple Google search. I make no claim as to them being 100% accurate but I make an effort to be as factual as I am able when posting. There may well be some duplication of coin type or variety, but I try not to double post any single coins. My feeble brain may slip on that from time to time. These are all from my semi worthless collection of world coins from over the years. Little to no value exists in most (if not all) of them. They are just a hobby.
Please be aware... I am no coin expert. Titles here are either what I was told when acquiring these or are from a simple Google search. I make no claim as to them being 100% accurate but I make an effort to be as factual as I am able when posting. There may well be some duplication of coin type or variety, but I try not to double post any single coins. My feeble brain may slip on that from time to time. These are all from my semi worthless collection of world coins from over the years. Little to no value exists in most (if not all) of them. They are just a hobby.
Please be aware... I am no coin expert. Titles here are either what I was told when acquiring these or are from a simple Google search. I make no claim as to them being 100% accurate but I make an effort to be as factual as I am able when posting. There may well be some duplication of coin type or variety, but I try not to double post any single coins. My feeble brain may slip on that from time to time. These are all from my semi worthless collection of world coins from over the years. Little to no value exists in most (if not all) of them. They are just a hobby.
In the 1970's New York's graffiti writers battled the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) which sought to eliminate graffiti on the Subway system. One crew enlisted the MTA to help them:
"Writers 'borrowed' whatever suited their fancy from other sources. in the case of the MTA [Mad Transit Artists] crew, this extended to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's own initials, which were already painted on every train as part of their "official" design. Thereby, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority got up for the MTA crew" --- from "Taking the Train: how Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City" by Joe Austin. Columbia University Press, New York 2001.
So - with all this history, is it significant that someone is putting up stickers in the design of NY subway tokens? Could be, or they could be selling some edgy toothpaste or something. I don't know.
Marchmont street foundling tokens
They are actually accurate representations of tokens from the nearby Foundling Museum - The museum remembers for posterity the Foundling Hospital, set up in the mid 18th century as a home for unwanted babies who were then raised and educated by the institution. Some of these children were left a token by their mothers as a remembrance which – sadly – they were never given.