Metro Token - Moscow Mossovet

Reverse

Lettering:
ДЛЯ ОПЛАТЫ
ПРОЕЗДА
ОПУСТИТЬ В АВТОМАТ

Translation:
To pay the fare
put it in the machine

Comment

A very rare trial issue of a subway token with a star rather than a round hole in the middle. Minted at the Leningrad mint in two stage, first made the token itself, then, the second operation it cut a hole in the form of a star to tokens are not confused with coins. The token of this type participated in the trial tests of the first 2 turnstiles at the Krasnoselskaya metro station for only two days on July 14-15, 1935. (!), the tests were considered unsuccessful, the entire circulation of tokens was sent to the smelter in Kuibyshev, for the Moscow metro were made new tokens with a round hole in the middle.