Angpow Red Packet from Sanyo Singapore

2009 Year of the Ox.

This is my very first angpow packet of envelops that I've just received from Sanyo Singapore for this year.

It's a lucky pack of eight (8) red envelops.

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USA, Token from Guinness Museum of World Records

I'd received this nice piece of alloyed pewter token from a friend some 20 years ago.

I'd never known that the Guinness Museum of World Records is situated in San Francisco, California.

On the reverse of this token, there are words like Break A World's Record, and Best, Biggest, Most Fastest.

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USA, Tokens for Bus Rides

Here are four nickel tokens once meant for bus rides on Gibson Lines and Mobile City Lines.

Nowadays I wonder this kind of novelty idea of using tokens for bus rides is still relevant.

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Canada, Tokens of Toronto Transit Commission

In the 1980s, commuters used tiny aluminium-alloyed tokens to ride the Toronto Transit.

Tiny tokens like these were cheap to produce but easy to misplace. If they were misplaced or lost and never to be found, I guess the Toronto Transit would consider that as service rendered and money paid for nothing.

I don't have any idea as to how long this kind of tokens had been used by commuters and how many of these tokens had been lost and never been found.

Nowadays I wonder this kind of novelty idea of using tokens for train rides is still relevant.

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Italy, Telephone Tokens

In the mid-1980s, public telephones in Rome, Italy required brass tokens for calling.

Nowadays many people around the world carry cellphones around, and I wonder this kind of novelty idea of using tokens to make telephone calls is still relevant.

I guess these tokens are history and good mementos now.

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USA, Philadelphia Mint Token

In the late 1980s, I'd received this 1987 mint set of coins from a friend living in the USA.

Until today, I am still trying to figure out the reason as to why the US Philadelphia Mint had packed a large token dated August 14, 1969 inside this pack of coins.

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China, 1990 XI Asian Games Token

It's great to have a friendly seller, previously from Yahoo! Auctions Singapore, who was generous to give me this wonderful piece of bronze token commemorating the 1990 XI Asian Games held in Beijing, China.

The reverse of this token has a marvelous image of a galloping horse, 1990 being the Year of the Horse.

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China, (ND) Peking Hotel Token

It's great to have a friendly seller, previously from Yahoo! Auctions Singapore, who was generous to give me this large crown-size brass token.

This token was a souvenir from a hotel in Peking, China and its reverse has an impressive dragon-phoenix motif.

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China, 1987 Jinling Hotel Token

In 1987 (Year of the Rabbit), a relative had given me a copper token (sealed inside an acrylic capsule) after a visit to China.

It was wonderful to receive a nice souvenir from China at that time.
Some three years ago, a nice seller at Yahoo! Auctions Singapore had given me a similar token that he didn't want to keep in his collection any longer.

I am wondering whether all those visitors from Singapore might have somehow stayed in Jinling Hotel at that time, and this hotel had minted hundreds if not thousands of such tokens and given them to all its hotel guests.

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2004 Calendar Card and Token

This is a calendar card with an encased copper token.

This interesting item was given to me sometime last year by a good friend who'd found it tucked inside a second-hand used book.

This item has Chinese characters and Russian alphabets, and I guess it might be made in China and sold in Russia.

It's a wonder that this nice souvenir has landed in Singapore.

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