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Since the days of ancient Rome when a token-operated device dispensed water, tokens have been used to operate machines.
A number of early coin operated machines used tokens.
Their use started in the late 1800's as casino token or gaming tokens and continues today in the form of Arcade tokens. Some of the early machines that used amusement tokens included slot machines, pinball machines, cigar vending machines and musical instruments.
Only a very few
Amusement Tokens
can be attributed to Louisiana such as the "Alma Machine Co." pictured below. Most were provided by the machine
manufacturer's who were located in San Francisco, Chicago or Detroit. Usually their name or the machine name appeared on the token.
Below is a list of old Louisiana Amusement Tokens by
Louisiana Trade Tokens Catalog number,
name on token, shape and composition of the token.
4760-H/2-05 Hopkins Amusement Co. S8-A
4760-H/2-25 Hopkins Amusement Co. Rd-A
6293-A/9-05 Alma Machine Co. 5¢ Rd-WM
6293-A/9-25 Alma Machine Co. 25¢ Rd-B
6293-A/9-100 Alma Machine Co. 100 Rd-B
6293-A/9-200 Alma Machine Co. 200 Rd-B
6293-B/13a Bayou Novelty Co. NpB/iron Rd-BI
6293-B/13b Bayou Novelty Co. CpB/iron Rd-BI
6293-C/2-05 C & N Sales Co. Rd-B
6293-C/7-05a C. N. Co. Mach. No. 2 Rd-B
6293-C/7-05b C. N. Co. Mach. No. 4 Rd-B
6293-C/7-05b C. N. Co. Mach. No. 12 Rd-B
6293-C/46-05a Cont. Slot Mach Co. No.58 Rd-B
6293-UL Cont. Slot Mach Co. No.42 Rd-B
6293-C/46-60 Continentals S. M. Co. Rd-B
6293-C/47-05a Cont. S. M. Co. Mach. No.18 Rd-B
6293-C/47-05b Cont. S. M. Co. Mach. No.36 Rd-B
6293-C/64-05a Crescent Novelty Co. "A" Rd-B
6293-C/64-05b Crescent Novelty Co. "B" Rd-B
6293-C/65-05 Crescent Novelty Co. No.44 Rd-B
6293-D/4-05 D. N. Co. (Dixie Novelty) Rd-B
6293-N/15 New Orleans Gum Co. Rd-B
6293-N/16 New Orleans Novelty Co. Rd-B
6293-0/7-05a Orleans Machine Co. Rd-WM
6293-0/7-05b Orleans Machine Co. Rd-WM
6293-0/8-05a Orleans Machine Co. Rd-WM
6293-0/8-05b Orleans Machine Co. 2mm hole Rd-WM
6293-0/8-25 Orleans Machine Co. Rd-WM
6293-0/9-05 Orleans Mach. Co. Rd-WM
6293-0/10-05 O. M. Co. Rd-WM
6293-S/59-500 Southern Coin Mach. Exchange Rd-BI
6293-S/60a So Ven Co 21mm Rd-S
6293-S/60b So Ven Co 21mm Rd-B
6293-S/60c So Ven Co 18mm Rd-S
6293-S/61 Sport Center Rd-B
7791-S/17 Southern Music & Vending Co. Rd-WM
7917-UL The White Kitchen Rd-Np
Alma Machine Co.
New Orleans, LA
Walting MFG. Co.
Chicago, IL
Good For One Tune
Use in Pay to play
Musical Instruments
Gold Award
Slot Machine Token
Below are descriptions of two very good books about Amusement tokens and Modern Video Arcade tokens. These books were written by Stephen P. Alpert and Kenneth E. Smith. These books are out of print and hard to find. Published in 1979 and 1984 but the old amusement tokens list and description are not out of date.
