Telephone Token - E.N.Tel. Chromium plated brass

Telephone Token - E.N.Tel. (Chromium plated brass) - obverseTelephone Token - E.N.Tel. (Chromium plated brass) - reverse

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Features

Location Argentina
Type Automatic tokens › Telecommunication token
Years 1948-1990
Composition Chromium plated brass
Weight 6.65 g
Diameter 22.30 mm
Thickness 2.30 mm
Shape Round with groove(s)
Technique Milled
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Number
N#
196274
References Khod SA# 11-4,
Viktor Khodzhayev; 2015. Telephone tokens of South America. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
Groe# B1
H. A. Groenendijk; 1989. A catalog of telephone and telegraph tokens of the world. Self-published, Leiden, Netherlands.

Obverse

The acronym "E.N.Tel." on the center.

Script: Latin

Lettering: E.N.Tel.

Reverse

The logotype of E.N.Tel.

Edge

Smooth

Telephone Token - E.N.Tel. (Chromium plated brass) -  obverse

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Comments

The National Telecommunications Company (ENTel) was an Argentine public company originally created in 1948 by the government of Juan Domingo Perón, with the name of State Telephones. In 1956 it was renamed to ENTel, name that it maintained until its dissolution; in 1960 it was called for a short time National Telephone Company.



Unlike other countries, in which calls on public telephones were made by depositing coins, in the public equipment of ENTel, metallic chips called cospeles were used, which could prevent vandalism and theft of the coins that the equipment contained. The images that follow are from the blanks or cards used in public telephones, now replaced by magnetic cards or with integrated electronic circuits.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1948-1990) 

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