by nvmos2 » Tue Dec 20, 2016 7:28 pm
Jeff;
Nice assortment of tokens you have there;
seldom do you find these machines with a full (or mostly full) tube of tokens.
With what they are going for these days, a full tube of tokens is not of insignificant value.
The 100 and 50 Free Play tokens command a premium since there were relatively fewer of them made and operators often removed them and threw them in the nearest river to avoid paying the top awards.
Your Gold Award tokens, however, are clearly replacements and look to be blank slugs.
The original Champion GA tokens had the machine name and other design/printing stamped onto both sides.
Also, they were not just for show; there should be a dispenser attached to the inside of the front casting.
When the player hit 3 bars on the reels, the dispenser would drop a GA token into the payout cup below the viewing window.
I'm out of town for the holidays, otherwise I would post photo of the GA tokens and could tell you how many of them came with the machine for a full dispenser.
Jim