Telephone Token - Telebrás Local call - Fontamac

Telephone Token - Telebrás (Local call - Fontamac) - obverseTelephone Token - Telebrás (Local call - Fontamac) - reverse

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Features

Location Brazil
Type Automatic tokens › Telecommunication token
Years 1980-1995
Composition Zamak
Weight 4.2 g
Diameter 23 mm
Thickness 1.9 mm
Shape Round with groove(s)
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized 1994
Number
N#
139451
References Port# 384-596,
Milton Alves Portelinha; 2021. Coleção de Fichas de Telefone do Brasil = Brazil's Telephone Tokens (Edition 8). Self Published.
Groe# B1,
H. A. Groenendijk; 1989. A catalog of telephone and telegraph tokens of the world. Self-published, Leiden, Netherlands.
Groe# B4,
H. A. Groenendijk; 1989. A catalog of telephone and telegraph tokens of the world. Self-published, Leiden, Netherlands.
Groe# B10-B11,
H. A. Groenendijk; 1989. A catalog of telephone and telegraph tokens of the world. Self-published, Leiden, Netherlands.
Groe# B13-B14-B15,
H. A. Groenendijk; 1989. A catalog of telephone and telegraph tokens of the world. Self-published, Leiden, Netherlands.
Groe# B19-B20
H. A. Groenendijk; 1989. A catalog of telephone and telegraph tokens of the world. Self-published, Leiden, Netherlands.

Obverse

Two parallel horizontal slots, between them the term LOCAL, coined in low relief.
Above the first groove the date of the coinage (in this case 1988).
At the exergo, the mint mark FONTAMAC.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
1988
LOCAL
FONTAMAC

Reverse

Horizontal groove in the center.
Above the groove there is a square-shaped recess, followed below by the phrase read from top to bottom, with the words SISTEMA TELEBRÁS.

Below the groove is the logo of the Telebrás System, formed by a square with the peak of a sine wave in the center.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SISTEMA
TELEBRÁS

Translation:
TELEBRÁS
SYSTEM

Edge

Smooth

Telephone Token - Telebrás (Local call - Fontamac) -  obverse

© Renato Lima (CC BY-NC)

Mint

Indústria Metalúrgica Fontamac, São Paulo, Brazil

Comments

Telephone tokens, are tokens 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.

This type of plug was used for local calls, used in public phones, initially, red, installed in open booths with ear format, popularly called "big ear".


There were also public telephones, installed in private commercial establishments.


Variant: Small date and letters


Variant: Large date and letters


Variant: Small date, large letters


Variant: Small date and letters; figure on reverse (5)


Variant: Large date and letters; letter on reverse (J)


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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1980 FONTAMAC Port#384/Groe#B1 Medal alignment
1980 FONTAMAC Port#385/Groe#B1 Coin alignment
1980 FONTAMAC Port#386; 6
1981 FONTAMAC Port#387/Groe#B4 Medal alignment
1981 FONTAMAC Port#388/Groe#B4 Coin alignment
1983 FONTAMAC Port#389/Groe#B10; without number
1983 FONTAMAC Port#390/Groe#B11; 1
1983 FONTAMAC Port#391/Groe#B11; 2
1983 FONTAMAC Port#392/Groe#B11; 3
1983 FONTAMAC Port#393/Groe#B11; 4
1983 FONTAMAC Port#394/Groe#B11; 5
1983 FONTAMAC Port#395/Groe#B11; 6
1983 FONTAMAC Port#396/Groe#B11; 7
1983 FONTAMAC Port#397/Groe#B11; 8
1983 FONTAMAC Port#398/Groe#B11; 9
1983 FONTAMAC Port#399/Groe#B11; 10
1983 FONTAMAC Port#400/Groe#B11; 11
1983 FONTAMAC Port#401/Groe#B11; 12
1983 FONTAMAC Port#402/Groe#B11; 13
1983 FONTAMAC Port#403/Groe#B11; 14
1983 FONTAMAC Port#404/Groe#B11; 15
1983 FONTAMAC Port#405/Groe#B11; 16
1983 FONTAMAC Port#406/Groe#B11; 17
1983 FONTAMAC Port#407/Groe#B11; 18
1984 FONTAMAC Port#408/Groe#B13; Large date; small logo; medal alignement
1984 FONTAMAC Port#409/Groe#B13; Large date; coin alignement
1984 FONTAMAC Port#410/Groe#B15; Small date; without number
1984 FONTAMAC Port#411/Groe#B14; Small date; 1
1984 FONTAMAC Port#412/Groe#B14; Small date; 2
1984 FONTAMAC Port#413/Groe#B14; Small date; 3
1984 FONTAMAC Port#414; Small date; 4
1984 FONTAMAC Port#415/Groe#B14; Small date; 5
1985 FONTAMAC Port#416/Groe#B20; Large letters
1985 FONTAMAC Port#417/Groe#B19; Small letters
1986 FONTAMAC Port#418; Large date; big logo
1986 FONTAMAC Port#419; Large date; small logo
1986 FONTAMAC Port#420; Large date; A
1986 FONTAMAC Port#421; Large date; B
1986 FONTAMAC Port#422; Large date; C
1986 FONTAMAC Port#423; Large date; D
1986 FONTAMAC Port#424; Large date; E
1986 FONTAMAC Port#425; Large date; F
1986 FONTAMAC Port#426; Large date; G
1986 FONTAMAC Port#427; Large date; H
1986 FONTAMAC Port#428; Large date; I
1986 FONTAMAC Port#429; Large date; J
1986 FONTAMAC Port#430; Large date; K
1986 FONTAMAC Port#431; Large date; L
1986 FONTAMAC Port#432; Large date; M
1986 FONTAMAC Port#433; Large date; N
1986 FONTAMAC Port#434; Large date; P
1986 FONTAMAC Port#435; Large date; P
1986 FONTAMAC Port#436; Large date; Q
1986 FONTAMAC Port#437; Large date; R
1986 FONTAMAC Port#438; Large date; S
1986 FONTAMAC Port#439; Large date; t
1986 FONTAMAC Port#440; Small date; Large letters
1986 FONTAMAC Port#441; Small date; small letters
1986 FONTAMAC Port#442; Small date; 1
1986 FONTAMAC Port#443; Small date; 2
1986 FONTAMAC Port#444; Small date; 3
1986 FONTAMAC Port#445; Small date; 4
1986 FONTAMAC Port#446; Small date; 5
1986 FONTAMAC Port#447; Small date; A
1986 FONTAMAC Port#448; Small date; B
1986 FONTAMAC Port#449; Small date; C
1986 FONTAMAC Port#450; Small date; D
1986 FONTAMAC Port#451; Small date; E
1986 FONTAMAC Port#452; Small date; F
1986 FONTAMAC Port#453; Small date; G
1986 FONTAMAC Port#454; Small date; H
1986 FONTAMAC Port#455; Small date; I
1986 FONTAMAC Port#456; Small date; J
1986 FONTAMAC Port#457; Small date; K
1986 FONTAMAC Port#458; Small date; L
1986 FONTAMAC Port#459; Small date; M
1986 FONTAMAC Port#460; Small date; N
1986 FONTAMAC Port#461; Small date; O
1986 FONTAMAC Port#462; Small date; P
1986 FONTAMAC Port#463; Small date; Q
1986 FONTAMAC Port#464; Small date; R
1986 FONTAMAC Port#465; Small date; S
1986 FONTAMAC Port#466; Small date; T
1987 FONTAMAC Port#467; without number
1987 FONTAMAC Port#468; Big A
1987 FONTAMAC Port#469; Small A
1987 FONTAMAC Port#470; B
1987 FONTAMAC Port#471; C
1987 FONTAMAC Port#472; D
1987 FONTAMAC Port#473; E
1987 FONTAMAC Port#474; F
1987 FONTAMAC Port#475; G
1987 FONTAMAC Port#476; H
1987 FONTAMAC Port#477; I
1987 FONTAMAC Port#478; J
1987 FONTAMAC Port#479; K; coin alignement
1987 FONTAMAC Port#480; L
1987 FONTAMAC Port#481; M
1987 FONTAMAC Port#482; N
1987 FONTAMAC Port#483; O
1987 FONTAMAC Port#484; P
1987 FONTAMAC Port#485; Q
1987 FONTAMAC Port#486; R
1987 FONTAMAC Port#487; S
1987 FONTAMAC Port#488; T
1987 FONTAMAC Port#489; U
1988 FONTAMAC Port#490; square date numbers; empty square; medal alignment
1988 FONTAMAC Port#491; square date numbers; medal alignment
1988 FONTAMAC Port#492; square date numbers; coin alignment
1988 FONTAMAC Port#493; square date numbers; big letters LOCAL = 16x4mm; medal alignment
1988 FONTAMAC Port#494; square date numbers; small letters LOCAL = 16x3.5mm; medal alignment
1988 FONTAMAC Port#495; square date numbers; 1
1988 FONTAMAC Port#496; square date numbers; 2
1988 FONTAMAC Port#497; square date numbers; 3
1988 FONTAMAC Port#498; square date numbers; 4
1988 FONTAMAC Port#499; square date numbers; 5
1988 FONTAMAC Port#500; square date numbers; A
1988 FONTAMAC Port#501; square date numbers; B
1988 FONTAMAC Port#502; square date numbers; C
1988 FONTAMAC Port#503; square date numbers; D
1988 FONTAMAC Port#504; square date numbers; E
1988 FONTAMAC Port#505; square date numbers; F
1988 FONTAMAC Port#506; square date numbers; G
1988 FONTAMAC Port#507; square date numbers; H
1988 FONTAMAC Port#508; square date numbers; I
1988 FONTAMAC Port#509; square date numbers; J
1988 FONTAMAC Port#510; square date numbers; K
1988 FONTAMAC Port#511; square date numbers; L
1988 FONTAMAC Port#512; square date numbers; M
1988 FONTAMAC Port#513; square date numbers; N
1988 FONTAMAC Port#514; square date numbers; O
1988 FONTAMAC Port#515; square date numbers; P
1988 FONTAMAC Port#516; square date numbers; Q
1988 FONTAMAC Port#517; square date numbers; R
1988 FONTAMAC Port#518; square date numbers; S
1988 FONTAMAC Port#519; square date numbers; T
1988 FONTAMAC Port#520; square date numbers; U
1988 FONTAMAC Port#521; square date numbers; Z
1988 FONTAMAC Port#522; Small date; without number
1988 FONTAMAC Port#523; Small date; without number; Coin alignment
1988 FONTAMAC Port#524; Small date; without number; Square with vertical ligne ; medal alignement
1988 FONTAMAC Port#525; Small date; 1
1988 FONTAMAC Port#526; Small date; 2
1988 FONTAMAC Port#527; Small date; 3
1988 FONTAMAC Port#528; Small date; 4
1988 FONTAMAC Port#529; Small date; 5
1988 FONTAMAC Port#530; Small date; A
1988 FONTAMAC Port#531; Small date; B
1988 FONTAMAC Port#532; Small date; C
1988 FONTAMAC Port#533; Small date; C medal alignement
1988 FONTAMAC Port#534; Small date; D
1988 FONTAMAC Port#535; Small date; E
1988 FONTAMAC Port#536; Small date; F
1988 FONTAMAC Port#537; Small date; G
1988 FONTAMAC Port#538; Small date; H
1988 FONTAMAC Port#539; Small date; I
1988 FONTAMAC Port#540; Small date; J
1988 FONTAMAC Port#541; Small date; K
1988 FONTAMAC Port#542; Small date; L
1988 FONTAMAC Port#543; Small date; M
1988 FONTAMAC Port#544; Small date; N
1988 FONTAMAC Port#545; Small date; O
1988 FONTAMAC Port#546; Small date; P
1988 FONTAMAC Port#547; Small date; Q
1988 FONTAMAC Port#548; Small date; R
1988 FONTAMAC Port#549; Small date; S
1988 FONTAMAC Port#550; Small date; T
1988 FONTAMAC Port#551; Small date; U
1988 FONTAMAC Port#552; Big date
1988 FONTAMAC Port#553; Big date "1"
1988 FONTAMAC Port#554; Big date "2"
1988 FONTAMAC Port#555; Big date "3"
1988 FONTAMAC Port#556; Big date "4"
1988 FONTAMAC Port#557; Big date "5"
1988 FONTAMAC Port#558; Big date "6"
1988 FONTAMAC Port#559; Big date "7"
1988 FONTAMAC Port#560; Big date "8"
1988 FONTAMAC Port#561; Big date "9"
1988 FONTAMAC Port#562; Large date; A
1988 FONTAMAC Port#563; Large date; B
1988 FONTAMAC Port#564; Large date; C
1988 FONTAMAC Port#565; Large date; D
1988 FONTAMAC Port#566; Large date; E
1988 FONTAMAC Port#567; Large date; F
1988 FONTAMAC Port#568; Large date; G
1988 FONTAMAC Port#569; Large date; H
1988 FONTAMAC Port#570; Large date; I
1988 FONTAMAC Port#571; Large date; J
1988 FONTAMAC Port#572; Large date; K
1988 FONTAMAC Port#573; Large date; L
1988 FONTAMAC Port#574; Large date; M
1988 FONTAMAC Port#575; Large date; N
1988 FONTAMAC Port#576; Large date; O
1988 FONTAMAC Port#577; Large date; P
1988 FONTAMAC Port#578; Large date; R
1988 FONTAMAC Port#579; Large date; S
1988 FONTAMAC Port#580; Large date; T
1988 FONTAMAC Port#581; Large date; U
1989 FONTAMAC Port#582; without number
1989 FONTAMAC Port#583; square date numbers; medal alignement
1989 FONTAMAC Port#584; square date numbers; coin alignement
1990 FONTAMAC Port#586; square date numbers; medal alignement
1990 FONTAMAC Port#587; square date numbers; coin alignement
1991 FONTAMAC Port#588
1991 FONTAMAC Port#589; square date numbers
1993 FONTAMAC Port#590; square date numbers
1994 FONTAMAC Port#592; square date numbers; fine letters
1994 FONTAMAC Port#593; square date numbers; bold letters
1994 FONTAMAC Port#594; square date numbers; square letters
1995 FONTAMAC Port#595; square date numbers; big square
1995 FONTAMAC Port#596; square date numbers; square letters

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