GDR token

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UWAG stands for Unterhaltungs- und Waren-Ausspiel-Gerät (entertainment and goods gaming machine), a term so bureaucratic it had to come from the GDR There are several online, but with different monograms in the centre (the £ on mine looks capitalist) and a different lay-out. Mine is 3.9 grams, 21.1 mm, white metal, both sides are the same. The slit looks like it was added later, maybe to make it fit into a token operated washing machine?

Peter

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Apparently those tokens were used for various purposes. I found posts about "UWAG-Marken" for slot machines, for machine restaurants (you could buy a token or several and then use their food vending machines), and yes, they have different monograms or words in the center. And while the L does remind of the pound sign, the horizontal line is that of the H. So I think this simply means HL, or maybe LH ...

Christian

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Here's a candidate for what the above token may have been changed into. Not sure, because I haven't found a diameter for the token below. Amusingly, the token above is East German, the one below West German.

Peter