New york city toll token

This is a 1980's era Transit token from New York City. It was issued by the Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority for toll use on Manhattan Bridges & Tunnels. Noted on the reverse is The Triborough Bridge (now known as the Robert F. Kennedy), the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, and the Throgs Neck Bridge. -- (Tunnels and bridges from Manhattan to New Jersey are under the authority of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey so this was not valid for toll use there) - It is 1 1/8" in diameter and made of bronze.
no longer valid

 

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Cool. I have found a few of those tokens metal detecting parks and beaches here in NYC.

I live a few blocks away from the RFK Bridge

 

spent lot of years commuting over that bridge got lot of the tokens

 

Here is a version of it I found detecting. Notice the slanted strip on both sides.


I'm not sure how that occurred

 

Hard to say if i pulled out ten of them patina will be different on must of them

 

I also have the marine ones

 

I have had this NYC Transit Token at least 40 years. Found on the ground in Cincinnati, Ohio.

 

That is a 1970 nyc token i have all of them the 1953 token looks the same but little smaller dime size
1980,1995,1986-in that order

 

On mine, the Y is open on both sides.

 

the 1953 and 1970 did have that

 

I have two NYC Error tokens -
Off-Center Hole and Blank

 

Errors or varieties

 

I'm starting to remember things the blanks use to come in the packs of ten every once in a while i think they still worked so need to keep ...dang it

 

Only you can come up error transit tokens. Love it, you are the error king!

 

Still coming across them up