Token - Wonderland Ocean Beach
Features
| Location |
South Africa
 |
|---|---|
| King |
George VI (1936-1952)
|
| Type | Amusement tokens › Game machine and arcade tokens |
| Year | 1942 |
| Value | 1 Penny (1⁄240) |
| Currency | Pound (1825-1961) |
| Composition | Brass |
| Weight | 8.72 g |
| Diameter | 31.2 mm |
| Thickness | 1.8 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Issued | 1942 |
| Number | N# 558963 |
| References | Hern Tokens# 28a Brian Hern, Allyn Jacobs (ed.); 2009. Hern's Handbook on Southern African Tokens (2nd edition). Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. |
Obverse
Script: Latin
Lettering:
WONDERLAND
AUTOMATIC
AMUSEMENTS
Co
OCEAN BEACH
S.A.
Reverse
Script: Latin
Lettering:
THE
PROPERTY OF
WONDERLAND
S.A.
Edge
Plain
Comments
According to South Africa Tokens, 2021 Edition, by Dr Morgan Carroll et al., Wonderland was an amusement hall in Durban, South Africa, operated by the Automatic Amusement Co. The company as founded by Mr Samuel Newton in 1938 and these tokens were issued in 1942.
The tokens were sold to the patrons of the amusement hall arcade for 1 Penny each. They have the same diameter as the circulation pennies of the time.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| ND (1942) | |||||||||||||||
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