very cool... i'll have to get a single of each design and take a picture like that...
here's some before and after pics of the first batch of tokens i bought in my effort to set my games to run on them
they were painted with something pretty tough before '83... i soaked them in a can with lacquer thinner for a few days, rotating it whenever i could... got most of the paint off eventually
then i ran them for 20 hours in a vib tumbler with walnut shell media (that doesn't have much rouge left in it as its worn out and i'm cheap)
they look flippin awesome... when i get in the next 1200 or so i've ordered i'll be doing the same...
(all .984s, lots of generics and "Max Sportsters" where i worked as a teenager in the 90s, and then maybe 2 dozen or so unique ones... besides the MS ones and CeC ones i had before, these came from a small arcade that closed in '83 and didn't have their own tokens so they painted all these random ones)
- gwarble