Coin Slot Magazine - #083 - 1982 - January [International Arcade Museum]
T»H*E
MORE
PUZZLING
TOKENS
By Stephen P. Alpert
Here are five more puzzling tokens which hopefully
some readers can shed light on. If you can help, write
me at Box 66331, Los Angeles, California 90066.
Another puzzlement is the style of the token, which
has a late 19th century appearance, which would
predate the LIBERTY BELL machine. But maybe it's
just due to the manufacturer of these tokens, who was
using old minting equipment and was over ten years
behind the times in quality of product.
Token number 6:
COONEY CALCULATOR
(both sides of the token are the same)
Brass, 20mm.
Who was Cooney? And what kind of machine is the
COONEY CALCULATOR? That's assuming, of course,
that this is an old coin machine token, as it appears to
be. It was found in a batch of old slot machine tokens
out of the Oakland, California area
The token appears to be of the turn of the
century or early 20th century vintage. Maybe
Cooney was a machine manufacturer of the
San Francisco Bay area back then. As I
Token number 8:
Obverse: Kaiser Aluminum Elec
trical Products
Reverse: Jackpot (in tall letters)
Aluminum, 35mm.
Did Kaiser Aluminum manufacture machines or parts
recently obtained this token, I haven't done
any research on it at all, and I'm reporting it here for the
for coin machines? If not, what does "Jackpot" referto?
first time. The COONEY CALCULATOR sounds like a
fascinating machine, just based on the name. If you
know anything about Cooney or this machine, please
write in!
Continued on page 14
The token appears to be from somewhere in the
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Obverse: F in a bell
Reverse: M in a bell
Brass, 21 mm, design incuse (sunk
into token)
Here's another interesting token I just obtained. I
already had a similar token with the same bell (but no
letter) on the front, and a 5 on the back. I had
hypothesized that this was a very early Charles Fey
LIBERTY BELL slot machine token. The bell on the
token is similar to the one on Fey*s machine, and the
token came from northern California.
When I spotted the above token at a flea market, my
READY WHY IN
Token number 7:
eyes lit up — there was an F in the bell, surely for Fey.
But on turning the token over, there was the same bell
but with an M. Thus I was setback to hypothesizing
again. My first idea was that maybe the M is for Mills, as
Fey had business dealings with Mills on his LIBERTY
BELL machine. But then I remembered that Fey had
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business partners a or associates,
ade which I had recently
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checked out
w San Francisco city directories.
Dow in // the
w old
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Up to about 1904
Gustav Schulze was the "Company"
:
ttp & Co.; afterwards it was W. J. McFarland.
of Chas. h
Fey
So the F and M on the token could be for Fey and
McFarland.
1982
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