Telephone Token - CTB SP

Telephone Token - CTB SP - obverseTelephone Token - CTB SP - reverse

© Wilson Roberto Vasques Nunes

Features

Location Brazil
Type Automatic tokens › Telecommunication token
Years 1960-1970
Composition Steel
Weight 5.6 g
Diameter 23 mm
Thickness 1.7 mm
Shape Round with groove(s)
Technique Milled
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized 1970
Number
N#
126264
References Port# 179,
Milton Alves Portelinha; 2021. Coleção de Fichas de Telefone do Brasil = Brazil's Telephone Tokens (Edition 8). Self Published.
Port# 180,
Milton Alves Portelinha; 2021. Coleção de Fichas de Telefone do Brasil = Brazil's Telephone Tokens (Edition 8). Self Published.
Port# 181,
Milton Alves Portelinha; 2021. Coleção de Fichas de Telefone do Brasil = Brazil's Telephone Tokens (Edition 8). Self Published.
Port# 182,
Milton Alves Portelinha; 2021. Coleção de Fichas de Telefone do Brasil = Brazil's Telephone Tokens (Edition 8). Self Published.
Port# 183,
Milton Alves Portelinha; 2021. Coleção de Fichas de Telefone do Brasil = Brazil's Telephone Tokens (Edition 8). Self Published.
Groe# A22
H. A. Groenendijk; 1989. A catalog of telephone and telegraph tokens of the world. Self-published, Leiden, Netherlands.

Obverse

The CTB SP logo (Brazilian Telephone Company of São Paulo).

Script: Latin

Lettering: CTB SP

Reverse

2 grooves.

Edge

Smooth

Comments

Phone jacks are jacks used to make public phone calls.

They appeared in Brazil in the 60's. Their diameter ranged from 20 mm to 30 mm and were made of iron, brass, copper, zamac, among others. They carried the name of their company and region on the reverse and each of them worked on a specific type of public telephone. Due to this problem, in 1970, CTB made the tokens have a unique pattern for each service area. The following year two different types of tokens were established for the whole Brazilian territory: those of long-distance calls that only operated on blue public telephones, and those of local calls that operated only on red public telephones.

In mid-1992, due to the high costs for maintenance, collection of the tokens in the telephones and also the vandalism, the company Telebrás next to its research center instituted the use of the famous Calling Cards. This greatly reduced the costs of maintenance and repair of the devices and provided greater convenience to service users. Five years later, on July 16, 1997, the General Telecommunications Law (Law No. 9472) was instituted, which was a plan to expand and modernize the public telephone system in Brazil, a fact that occurred one year before the privatization of Telebrás. With that the old tokens became obsolete and were taken from the streets, becoming hence the object of fans and collectors.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
ND (1960-1970)  95% Port#179 CTB SP = 6x5mm
ND (1960-1970)  0% Port#180 CTB SP = 7x4.5mm
ND (1960-1970)  5% Port#181 CTB SP = 7.5x5mm
ND (1960-1970)  0% Port#182 CTB SP = 7x5.5mm
ND (1960-1970)  0% Port#183 CTB SP = 7.5x5.5mm

Frequencies show the percentage of Numista users who own each year or variety among all the users who own this item. Since some users own several versions, the sum may be greater than 100%.

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