Telephone Token - CTB Zamak

Telephone Token - CTB (Zamak) - obverseTelephone Token - CTB (Zamak) - reverse

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Features

Location Brazil
Issuing entity Companhia Telefônica Brasileira
Type Automatic tokens › Telecommunication token
Years 1970-1997
Composition Zamak
Weight 4.24 g
Diameter 23 mm
Thickness 1.7 mm
Shape Round with groove(s)
Technique Milled
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized 1997
Number
N#
89866
References Port# 101-128,
Milton Alves Portelinha; 2021. Coleção de Fichas de Telefone do Brasil = Brazil's Telephone Tokens (Edition 8). Self Published.
Groe# A4,
H. A. Groenendijk; 1989. A catalog of telephone and telegraph tokens of the world. Self-published, Leiden, Netherlands.
Groe# A15,
H. A. Groenendijk; 1989. A catalog of telephone and telegraph tokens of the world. Self-published, Leiden, Netherlands.
Groe# A16
H. A. Groenendijk; 1989. A catalog of telephone and telegraph tokens of the world. Self-published, Leiden, Netherlands.

Obverse

Two horizontal and parallel grooves, among them the acronym: CTB.

Script: Latin

Lettering: CTB

Unabridged legend: Companhia Telefônica Brasileira

Translation: Brazilian Telephone Company

Reverse

A horizontal groove centered on the part.

Edge

Smooth

Mint

F Indústria Metalúrgica Fontamac, São Paulo, Brazil

Comments



Variant: "no letters on reverse"


Variant: "F", "1 6"


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
ND (1970-1997)  Port#101/Groe#A4 No letters on reverse (small letters)
ND (1970-1997) F Port#102/Groe#A15.1 Reverse lettering "F", "1 1"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#103/Groe#A15.2 Reverse lettering "F", "1 2"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#104/Groe#A15.3 Reverse lettering "F", "1 3"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#105/Groe#A15.4 Reverse lettering "F", "1 4"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#106/Groe#A15.5 Reverse lettering "F", "1 5"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#107/Groe#A15.6 Reverse lettering "F", "1 6"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#108/Groe#A15.7 Reverse lettering "F", "1 7"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#109/Groe#A15.8 Reverse lettering "F", "1 8"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#110/Groe#A15.9 Reverse lettering "F", "1 9"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#111/Groe#A15.1 Reverse lettering "F", "1 1"; coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#112 Reverse lettering "F", "1 2"; coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#113/Groe#A15.3 Reverse lettering "F", "1 3"; coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#114 Reverse lettering "F", "1 4"; coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#115/Groe#A15.5 Reverse lettering "F", "1 5"; coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#116/Groe#A15.6 Reverse lettering "F", "1 6"; coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#117/Groe#A15.7 Reverse lettering "F", "1 7"; coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#118/Groe#A15.8 Reverse lettering "F", "1 8"; coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#119/Groe#A16.1 Reverse lettering "F", "2 1"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#120 Reverse lettering "F", "2 2"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#121 Reverse lettering "F", "2 3"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#122 Reverse lettering "F", "2 4"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#123 Reverse lettering "F", "2 5"; medal alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#124/Groe#A16.1 Reverse lettering "F", "2 1"; coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#125/Groe#A16.2 Reverse lettering "F", "2 2"; coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#126/Groe#A16.3 Reverse lettering "F", "2 3"; coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#127/Groe#A16.4 Reverse lettering "F", "2 4"; coin alignment
ND (1970-1997) F Port#128/Groe#A16.5 Reverse lettering "F", "2 5"; coin alignment

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