Playing the Royal Oak across from Barrymores on August 25, 2006

Padlocks left as tokens of love at the Sacre Coeur in Montmartre, Paris.

Scott Polar Research Institute

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Playing the Royal Oak across from Barrymores on August 25, 2006

Me, looking cheesy, (but proof I was there, I suppose).

Image courtesy Ron Benice

Hantaran. Engagement token

This RFID token is used in the Shenzen metro. In Shenzen they also have RFID stored value octopus cards like hong kong. But for one time use you buy a token, wave it over the rfid reader and plop it into the exit token reader. Pretty slick and reusable.

Playing the Royal Oak across from Barrymores on August 25, 2006

wouldn't be a photostream without at least one bee pic

Wandering around. Taking random photos of the beer token people. They wanted to take my photo back. Fair enough.

Wandering around. Taking random photos of the beer token people. They wanted to take my photo back. Fair enough.

I was admonished by some transit cops to take pictures of the sculptures in the 14th Street/8th Ave subway station.

They're part of Tom Otterness's "Life Underground" series.

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Isn't it just PRETTY?!

A sample drink token made by SmartBar Drink Tokens (note the "SB" insignia). Lew Moutons Noir (The Black Sheep. Nice, France.

If Token had a theme song it would sound like super mario brothers dungeon medley...

This brass piece appears to be a promotional token issued by the Reader's Digest c.1980. Quite how it worked in reality I don't know. The piece measures 45x20mm. Weighs 7g. Both obverse and reverse carry the same design, that is of a crude male portrait facing half right within an oval. The legend READER's DIGEST appears in a ribbon and again below the cartouche enclosing most of the design, this time in both upper and lower case. DOLLAR TOKEN either side of bust with one roundel either side. The edges are plain, the field cross hatched.