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Which has more impact on the price you will pay for a token? [5 vote(s)]

Token Condition
80.0%
Token Material
20.0%
Token Shape
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Token Survey..


What impacts how much you will pay for a token more out of these choices?

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I just took the token survey, but the response is relative to other factors.  For example, a token in poor condition from a rare town is more desirable than a token in excellent condition from a common town.  A unique or unusual shape is always more appealing to the eye, but if it's a common one, or one that I already have, I'd probably pass on it and go for another one that I didn't already have, regardless of condition or material.  By material, I presume you mean the type of material the token is made from???  I also look at the kind of merchant.  For example, in the world of Civil War Store cards, the undertaker and lawyer tokens always go for more than you would expect and apparently regardless of rarity since more people collect them.


 


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Great to see you on board Steve.  I didn't realize you were into tokens.  What area do you collect in?  Please post some pics of your tokens.


 


You bring up some great points about the factors.  I was just trying to get a feel for what people were looking for in their tokens.  Your summary was great.  In a week or 2 I will post up another poll with more specifics.


 


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I've been collecting Ks tokens seriously since about 2000.  Thanks largely to Bill Waken, I'm up to about 1300 different KS tokens.  I don't have too many of the rare ones, mostly just the more common ones.  What's interesting to me, and hopefully I'll have the time to do something with it soon, is to do a comparison on some of the varieties of tokens.  I've just been working on recataloguing the collection since my disk that I had the file stored on seems to have malfunctioned, and I'm noticing that there is a wide variety of variations, including a few that I didn't realize I had.  Bill Waken's catalogue, as well as the new catalogue by Larry Oller and Kent Johnson, don't list the specifics that make one token different from another, just that there are multiple varieties, or Type I, Type II, etc.  The Schwartz tokens from Hanover are the best example, but there are others.  Some of the differences are in size, while others are in the wording (G/F 50 in trade vs G/F 50c in Trade), or in how the wording is stamped on the token (letters form a curve as opposed to a straight line, for example). 


I noticed from your postings that you mainly focus on SE Kansas.  I'm beginning to realize that trying to collect the whole state is too ambitious, so I do need to start focusing more on a region, or some other strategy.  I had thought at one point that I would get all the tokens from the towns I've lived in, plus Chapman since I lived about 12 miles north, but Junction City, Chapman, Bazine, and even Manhattan don't come up very often on ebay.  The few token dealers who have Kansas tokens here in San Antonio area have mostly the common ones, so not much luck there. 


 


Steve


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Varieties are something that has hardly been touched on in the Kansas token area.  Kent & Larry mention varieties in their book if there is a significant difference in the token.  Hargett did collect varieties.  Of course he grabbed everything he could.  Maybe in the next revision to the token book we can focus on getting more varieties noted.  It's a tall order with so many different tokens out there.


 


After first getting into tokens, I quickly realized that going after the whole state was going to be too costly and be way too much for my little brain to handle.  I then decided to collect the 9 counties in SE KS.  There seemed to be enough different towns and tokens to keep me interested and make the "set" challenging.  After 5 years of collecting it appears I was right.  I hope over the years that I can get one example of each token produced in SE KS.  Not likely, but I've got probably 40+ years to try.  My problem has been finding a source, other than Ebay, for new material.  That was one of the reason I wanted to start this message board.



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