Telephone Token - Telesp Local call - São Paulo State

Features

Location Brazil
Type Automatic tokens › Telecommunication token
Years 1970-1997
Composition Zamak
Weight 4.4 g
Diameter 23 mm
Thickness 2 mm
Shape Round with groove(s)
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
20138
References Port# 883,
Milton Alves Portelinha; 2021. Coleção de Fichas de Telefone do Brasil = Brazil's Telephone Tokens (Edition 8). Self Published.
Port# 884,
Milton Alves Portelinha; 2021. Coleção de Fichas de Telefone do Brasil = Brazil's Telephone Tokens (Edition 8). Self Published.
Port# 885,
Milton Alves Portelinha; 2021. Coleção de Fichas de Telefone do Brasil = Brazil's Telephone Tokens (Edition 8). Self Published.
Port# 886,
Milton Alves Portelinha; 2021. Coleção de Fichas de Telefone do Brasil = Brazil's Telephone Tokens (Edition 8). Self Published.
Port# 887-917
Milton Alves Portelinha; 2021. Coleção de Fichas de Telefone do Brasil = Brazil's Telephone Tokens (Edition 8). Self Published.

Obverse

Two parallel horizontal grooves, having between them the TELESP plank, coined in low relief.

Script: Latin

Lettering: TELESP

Reverse

Horizontal groove in the center, topped by numeral 8 and below the name of the manufacturer of these parts, ie FONTAMAC and below also the company logo, composed of an inverted isosceles triangle with the letter F in the center.

There are variants with numeral, manufacturer name and different logo.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
8
FONTAMAC
F

Edge

Smooth

Mints

ARPRA Metalúrgica Arpa Ltda, São Paulo, Brazil
F Indústria Metalúrgica Fontamac, São Paulo, Brazil

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.

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 ARPRA

Variant: TELESF (error); "S" square

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1970-1997)  Port#885
ND (1970-1997) ARPRA Port#886 Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#883 TELESF (error)
ND (1970-1997) F Port#884 TELESR (error)
ND (1970-1997) F Port#887 Reverse lettering Big "F"; medal alignement
ND (1970-1997) F Port#888 Reverse lettering Big "F"; coin alignement
ND (1970-1997) F Port#889 Reverse lettering Big "F"; medal alignement
ND (1970-1997) F Port#890 Reverse lettering Big "F"; coin alignement
ND (1970-1997) F Port#891 Reverse lettering "1", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#892 Reverse lettering "2", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#893 Reverse lettering "3", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#894 Reverse lettering "4", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#895 Reverse lettering "5", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#896 Reverse lettering "6", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#897 Reverse lettering "7", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#898 Reverse lettering "8", "F"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#899 Reverse lettering "9", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#900 Reverse lettering "1", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#901 Reverse lettering "2", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#902 Reverse lettering "3", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#903 Reverse lettering "4", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#904 Reverse lettering "5", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#905 Reverse lettering "6", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#906 Reverse lettering "7", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#907 Reverse lettering "8", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#908 Reverse lettering "9", "FONTAMAC", "F"; Coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#909 Reverse lettering "F", "1 1"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#910 Reverse lettering "F", "1 2"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#911 Reverse lettering "F", "1 3"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#912 Reverse lettering "F", "1 4"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#913 Reverse lettering "F", "1 5"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#914 Reverse lettering "F", "1 6"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#915 Reverse lettering "F", "1 7"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#916 Reverse lettering "F", "1 9"; Medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#917 Reverse lettering "F", "1 9"; Medal alignment

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