Good source for 22mm or 23mm tokens?

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Looking for about 1000 tokens in the 22 to 23 mm size. Would prefer the Namco Cyberstation ones with Pacman on them. I've emailed Noice87 via the last known email I have, with no response. I've seen on alibabaexpress, they have tokens really cheap with some decent designs. Anyone order from there successfully?

Thanks,
 
Will any token take the place of a quarter in any machine?
No.

A US Quarter is 0.955" in diameter and 1.75 mm thick.

Arcade tokens can range in a lot of different diameters and thicknesses... Here's a simple example:

Homepagesizechart.jpg


Coin mechs are all designed to usually take specific sizes to prevent people from just jamming any coin in there to count as a credit. A coin mech can determine the diameter and thickness of a coin and also detect anything metal like a metal washer in place of a token or quarter. It does this with a series of channels that funnel coins based on their size and thickness. A magnet prevents any metal from dropping through the mech to count as a credit.

The two most common sizes are 0.9" and 0.984" for most arcade tokens.

There are mechs that exist in which you can basically drop anything in them and they will count it as a credit. Essentially they just have no checks built in to funnel faulty coins.

One such mech is a 3d printed one sold by arcade restoration workshop:

http://www.arcaderestoration.com/products/1/ACV2/Any+Coin+TM+V2.aspx
 
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I have the Any Coin mechs in my games. I like them pretty well, although they are difficult to get lined up correctly on a few of them. Had a little trouble on the 2 Atari coin doors and on Zaxxon. They work fine, now, though. I bought a huge load of tokens off E-bay for $35 or something including shipping. He put 35lbs of tokens into a medium flat rate box to save on shipping. He said there were over 1800 but I am thinking its more like 2500 or more. Most of them are from the same place. I only found about 50 that were from other places but all are the same size. Some were pretty nasty but most have cleaned up pretty well. I have been wanting to run my games on tokens since I started collecting games almost 15 years ago.
 
Chuck E Cheese sells them for $250 per 1000

:D
 
Chuck E Cheese sells them for $250 per 1000

:D

LOL. They sure do, but they are bigger than a quarter. I need smaller than a quarter and much much cheaper. I'm guessing no one has ordered from over seas? I'd like to go that route because the price is where I wanna be. Noice's prices were great, but I guess he's out of the business. I was paying 4 cents per token from him before.
 
LOL. They sure do, but they are bigger than a quarter. I need smaller than a quarter and much much cheaper. I'm guessing no one has ordered from over seas? I'd like to go that route because the price is where I wanna be. Noice's prices were great, but I guess he's out of the business. I was paying 4 cents per token from him before.



What price are you looking at? When I was pricing tokens. the alibaba route was cheap for sure but the 5000 to 10000 min order at .08 a token was not attractive. (Just didn't need that many)

Unless you've found cheaper, let us know
 
I've got some misc .880s kicking around.

I run .900s, and boy was it fun sorting them out :)

The namco .880s are particularly thin and light, so you might need special mechs for them.
 
I wanted custom tokens for my basement but I knew that would be off the map pricewise. I got lucky on the bulk load I got. I haven't seen anything close to that many for the price.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4000-ARCADE...604957?hash=item464c2b1e5d:g:8E0AAOSwDk5ULa9d

That might be good if you don't mind them saying "Miami" on them.


I love the part of the description that talks about customers buying them to use in local arcades and how they should check if that is allowed. Uhhhh......Here in America, we call that "theft of services."
 
I've got some misc .880s kicking around.

I run .900s, and boy was it fun sorting them out :)

The namco .880s are particularly thin and light, so you might need special mechs for them.

I'm using the anycoinmech, so that shouldn't be a problem. If you don't mind, shoot me a PM with how many you have and what you want for them.
 
I wanted custom tokens for my basement but I knew that would be off the map pricewise. I got lucky on the bulk load I got. I haven't seen anything close to that many for the price.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4000-ARCADE...604957?hash=item464c2b1e5d:g:8E0AAOSwDk5ULa9d

That might be good if you don't mind them saying "Miami" on them.


I love the part of the description that talks about customers buying them to use in local arcades and how they should check if that is allowed. Uhhhh......Here in America, we call that "theft of services."

Appreciate the link, but I need tokens that are smaller than a quarter. The .984's are bigger and won't fit through classic Midway metal coin slots unless you dremel them out.
 
No.

A US Quarter is 0.955" in diameter and 1.75 mm thick.

Arcade tokens can range in a lot of different diameters and thicknesses... Here's a simple example:

Homepagesizechart.jpg


Coin mechs are all designed to usually take specific sizes to prevent people from just jamming any coin in there to count as a credit. A coin mech can determine the diameter and thickness of a coin and also detect anything metal like a metal washer in place of a token or quarter. It does this with a series of channels that funnel coins based on their size and thickness. A magnet prevents any metal from dropping through the mech to count as a credit.

The two most common sizes are 0.9" and 0.984" for most arcade tokens.

There are mechs that exist in which you can basically drop anything in them and they will count it as a credit. Essentially they just have no checks built in to funnel faulty coins.

One such mech is a 3d printed one sold by arcade restoration workshop:

http://www.arcaderestoration.com/products/1/ACV2/Any+Coin+TM+V2.aspx

$7.50 per mech, eh? Not bad! May have to look into that sometime.
 
I'm using the anycoinmech, so that shouldn't be a problem. If you don't mind, shoot me a PM with how many you have and what you want for them.

I've got misc numbers of various varieties, but I've got the most (~2000?) of these:

Obverse: Worcester Children's Playland Museum (with a clown)
Reverse: No Cash Value

The op I cleaned out ran his own tokens, so he sharpied 'foreign' tokens and threw them in buckets... nothing a little solvent bath won't fix, and you'll want to wash any bulk tokens anyway.

CjT2rjGWEAAScVQ.jpg:large
 
I've got misc numbers of various varieties, but I've got the most (~2000?) of these:

Obverse: Worcester Children's Playland Museum (with a clown)
Reverse: No Cash Value

The op I cleaned out ran his own tokens, so he sharpied 'foreign' tokens and threw them in buckets... nothing a little solvent bath won't fix, and you'll want to wash any bulk tokens anyway.

CjT2rjGWEAAScVQ.jpg:large

Thanks. PM sent, sir.
 
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