These pages are dedicated to the, rather recherché, hobby of collecting slot machine tokens. I came to it after a number of jackpot wins in my youth on the fruit machine in the local pub and I noticed that all the tokens were not the same. I already was a numismatist, collecting ancient coins, but this was a new area for me and my first venture into paranumismatics.

I soon came across Ralph Hayes' book, British Machine Tokens (1986) and realised that I was not alone.

The tokens, although many are from gaming/fruit machines these are not the only source. Car park barriers, car washes, some vending machines and telephones have all employed these coin substitutes.

Varieties in metal, size and letter size are included. However, where punched in numbers vary these are not noted separately and may just represent a site or customer number

I follow the broad arrangement employed by Hayes in that it is perhaps easiest to arrange the tokens by alphabetical order, followed by anonymous with a mark of value and then the anonymous without value. Finally there are some foreign tokens that I have come across.