Unidentified token JOYFUL LAND

[Figleaf]

I should know this, but I don't. Never seen it before. Not in Kooy. No trace of the logo on Google.

Imitation Dutch 25 cent piece, 21.4 mm and 4.1 gram, magnetic.

Peter

[africancoins]

I have not seen that one before...

However.... this reminds me - if you all look in a Standard Catalog of World Coins and find Netherlands 1 Cent 1948 then some of you will be looking at an image that matches a coin I got many years ago and others will be looking at an image that matches a plastic token I got the other day.... it all depends which edition of the book you have......

Thanks Mr Paul Baker

[Afrasi]

Just two ideas:

H H = Hanzestad Harderwijk?

Indonesia? Used like the South African "Gold Reef" tokens ...

[Chinasmith]

Looks like an amusement token -- for use in a pinball, pachinko or video game machine. But I have no idea where it is from. The portrait does look like the Dutch queen. There is a token making firm (private mint) in Chicago called  Hoffman & Hoffman, which uses the  H H  mintmark, but I don't think they made this.

[johnkooij]

This is a 21.2 mm white-metal token picturing Queen Juliana. Can somebody tell me what is is for? And where it is used?

[Figleaf]

See earlier posts. We didn't get far with this one.

Peter

[jezuss]

i don't know if it helps, but here is another joyful-land token.
23.5 mm
nickel plated brass

[Figleaf]

I think I found them on the web page of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. They are both gaming tokens, likely Pachinko tokens made in Taiwan. My daughter says there has been a series of Pachinko tokens inspired by circulating coins of foreign (to the Japanese) countries.

Peter

[malj1]

Another seen on eBay today looks to be brass this time but maybe the camera lied! it often does these days. 

Maybe someone can read the Chinese/Japanese? characters?

[jezuss]

another joyful land token.
same size, same metal and the same drops.
21.3 mm nickel plated iron

[Figleaf]

The font and decorations link this one with previous tokens, that are in turn linked to East Asia, so I think the Honk Kong link I reported above is solid.

Peter

[Figleaf]

Maybe someone can read the Chinese/Japanese? characters?

The characters are likely Chinese. I tried Pellinore's technique of using camera and Google translate on them. At one point, the app briefly translated the last two (?) characters as "via paradise". I tried translating joyful land in Google translate, getting characters different from the ones on the token.

Peter

[malj1]

A search for the tokens on the website provided by that link returns "Sorry! No records are found"

[Figleaf]

It still works for me, though the company seems to be in Taiwan now.

Peter