What to do with these tokens?

[53' Stude]

good Afternoon BITOGERS. A friend gave me all these tokens Friday. Cleaning up junk in his house/shed. I don’t even know where a video game/arcade is anymore. Our mall had nothing except Rural King and few other stores. How would you recommend I dispose of these or is there a place I can go and give them to?


Thank You all

 

[AutoMechanic]

Those are cool. Personally I’d keep them who knows they might be worth something one day.

 

[wwillson]

They are tokens to operate a machine, like at Chuck-E-Cheese (yes, I took my kids there) or an arcade. They have zero value outside of operating the games and probably hundreds of millions of them have been made. If you wait about a thousand years, they might be worth something.

 

[anderson]

car washes use those up here.

might be worth checking next time your out getting gas or whatnot

 

[BISCUT]

I'd sell them to car washes or mini golf places or batting cage machine places. No sense in keeping them IMO.

 

[AZjeff]

Tell people they're Bitcoins.

 

[Aredeeem]

Still have one or two Garden State Parkway tokens. Introduced in the early 1980’s to speed thru tolls they were eliminated in 2008 or 2009 I believe. Now it’s all high speed EZ pass. Toll collectors in New Jersey had an easy, Union protected, monotonous job for years. All gone except for those still collecting a pension. If you could survive the fumes from vehicles accelerating out of the toll booths.

 

[Hall]

They're worthless unless they're used at the place that sold them. If you used them (presuming a machine accepted them) at a car wash, vending machine, video game arcade, etc, I mean technically that would be "theft".

How would you recommend I dispose of these

Walk over to your trash can, open the lid, drop them in, close the lid.

 

[Aredeeem]

There’s that too.

 

[wpod]

Tell people they're Bitcoins.

Awsome !!!

 

[Aredeeem]

On a related note, my brother, and I, have always been amateur numismatics. When we get together we enjoy pouring over my large collection of foreign coins, tokens, etc that I accumulated while bus driving into and out of Manhattan. It’s very interesting to research these bits of history.

 

[vavavroom]

Toss them in fountains or put them in geocaches when you go charting. You could also place them on tombstones. Drill holes and make a necklace. Turn them into coat buttons or small drawer pulls. Throw a handful of them behind you on the ground if you are being followed by unsavory characters in a densely populated third-world urban area. The locals will scramble for anything that glitters and this will foil your pursuers. Load them up in shotgun shells.

 

[Oillover]

car washes use those up here.

might be worth checking next time your out getting gas or whatnot

Bingo!
Especially the car wand washes and vacuums.

 

[vavavroom]

Bingo!
Especially the car wand washes and vacuums.

Twenty years ago I could use the same tokens at various non-affiliated places. Since then, every place seems to have moved on to their own bespoke tokens.

 

[Eddie]

Ask the person who gave you them?

 

[supton]

Buy a brick of 22lr and practice your markmanship skills. Each time you start getting 4 out of 5 shots, take one more step back. Repeat until out of tokens.

 

[leadcounsel]

Drill holes in them to make washers. Give them to a coin collector or someone to make jewelry or whatever out of. Drill them and use with a wind chime. Give them to kids at halloween.

 

[Warstud]

Tell people they're Bitcoins.

should be worth 23k a piece

 

[97prizm]

They look like Dave and Buster Tokens

 

[skyactiv]

Stick one on a railroad track and post a pic in the random phot thread once it's flattened.