Tokens of the BAPOFSU

Started by Figleaf, October 28, 2009, 01:10:15 AM

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Figleaf

BAPOFSU is of course :) the "Bits And Pieces Of the Former Soviet Union". These pieces date approximately from the period 1980-2000.

My first piece is from Armenia, for use in the Yerevan underground. I think the obverse shows the monument to David of Sasun in front of one of the stations as well as the main train station. The script is beyond me. The token is blackish plastic, 0,8 grams, 23,9 mm.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

Figleaf

Azerbaidjan is our next stop. The regular Baku underground token is inscribed BAKI METROPOLITEN. The M is the logo of the system. The coat of arms is unclear to me. This token is greenish black plastic, 0.7 grams, 24.6 mm.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

Figleaf

This is a commemorative token for the 30th anniversary of the Baku underground in 1997. One side shows a train coming out of a tunnel (mind the gap) and 30, the other the M logo and 67   97.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

Figleaf

Over to Georgia (not the one in the US ;)), with this underground token of Tbilisi, again in a forbidding script. The heraldics on a token are somewhat surprising. This token is in bright red plastic, 0.5 grams and 21.9 mm.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

Figleaf

#4
It looks like St Petersburg on one side, but the other side has the logo of the Kiev underground, so this token is from Ukraina. It is bronze, 3.0 grams and 21.0 mm.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

Figleaf

This token is also from Kiev. The city name has moved and it is slightly larger and made from a totally different material. This token is green plastic, 0.8 grams, 24,7 mm. Wikipedia has a later model in blue.

Peter


An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

translateltd

Quote from: Figleaf on October 28, 2009, 01:10:15 AM
BAPOFSU is of course :) the "Bits And Pieces Of the Former Soviet Union". These pieces date approximately from the period 1980-2000.

My first piece is from Armenia, for use in the Yerevan underground. I think the obverse shows the monument to David of Sasun in front of one of the stations as well as the main train station. The script is beyond me. The token is blackish plastic, 0,8 grams, 23,9 mm.

Peter

With the aid of this table:

http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Armenian_Alphabet

I transliterate the "reverse" (legend) side as EREVANI METROPOLITEN, with a large M in the centre (you need to rotate the image 90° anticlockwise first).

Interesting that the table shows that this is yet another alphabet with a side job as a numbering system.


Figleaf

Makes sense. Your handle isn't translateltd for nothing ;) Thanks!

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

Gagarin_Andrey

#8
Dear Peter!
The tokens shown by these link are the simplest in CIS and everybody cast them away because they have reakky no cash value here...

About Kiev subway tokens I can easyli get the items of the old tyoe like this
http://tokenoman.ru/content/view/154/41/lang,russian/
and the other types, blue and green colored. near 7 years ago we had blue colored, cost 0.3 grivna as far as I remember,
http://obschestvo.bezgazet.com.ua/thumb/w100-h100/96/3b/e6/f0/963be6f0b3fd8d844a2524517d3c5334.jpg
that the price got higher and we gor a green tokens for 0.5 grinva, but now we have that blue tokens back, but yet for 1.7 grivna...
http://novostey.com/i4/2010/07/05/267b1b71c902b229fccb8010b5195052.jpg

If you need for the collection, I can send a new subway token to You, it's not a problem

Andrei
Interests: Eastern Europe Middle Ages coins

My articles about numismatics
https://independent.academia.edu/AndreiBoikoGagarin

Prosit

Are there any interesting designs of recent manufacture?

Dale


Quote from: Gagarin_Andrey on August 08, 2010, 12:47:33 AM
....If you need for the collection, I can send a new subway token to You, it's not a problem

Andrei


Gagarin_Andrey

only one new type appeared in a excellent condition

sorry for my bad scanner with the wrong color, in real the color is blue, the csan shows only the general nice condition
Interests: Eastern Europe Middle Ages coins

My articles about numismatics
https://independent.academia.edu/AndreiBoikoGagarin

Gagarin_Andrey

on the left side is the arm of the kievan subway with sign M (the first letter of "metro" in ukrainian  means "subway")
on the other side the same sign and written "Metropoliten Kiev" ("Kiev Subway")

soon I can make a better photo if it is needed for somebody's  archive...
Interests: Eastern Europe Middle Ages coins

My articles about numismatics
https://independent.academia.edu/AndreiBoikoGagarin

andyg

Quote from: Gagarin_Andrey on August 08, 2010, 01:24:48 AM
on the left side is the arm of the kievan subway with sign M (the first letter of "metro" in ukrainian  means "subway")
on the other side the same sign and written "Metropoliten Kiev" ("Kiev Subway")

soon I can make a better photo if it is needed for somebody's  archive...

The 'M' is for Metro logo seems quite common all over the world,
here is a British one

but our tokens are a little different
always willing to trade modern UK coins for modern coins from elsewhere....

Afrasi

Quote from: Gagarin_Andrey on August 08, 2010, 01:24:48 AMwritten Metropoliten Kiev" ("Kiev Subway")

If I see it right it's written in Ukrainian language "Kiiv" not in the Russian language "Kiev".

Ukrainii Pyat

Quote from: Afrasi on September 28, 2010, 01:37:37 AM
If I see it right it's written in Ukrainian language "Kiiv" not in the Russian language "Kiev".

It is law that all signs, documents etc must be in Ukrainian language.  I can say much more, but it goes off topic. 
Донецк Украина Donets'k Ukraine