Token - Viação Novacap S.A (hexagonal; without final point in "S.A") ND (1960) front Token - Viação Novacap S.A (hexagonal; without final point in "S.A") ND (1960) back
Token - Viação Novacap S.A (hexagonal; without final point in "S.A") ND (1960) photo
© Wilson Roberto Vasques Nunes

Token - Viação Novacap S.A hexagonal; without final point in "S.A" ND

1960 year
Plastic 1.1 g 31 mm
Description
Location
Brazil
Type
Transportation tokens › Public transportation tokens
Year
1960
Composition
Plastic
Weight
1.1 g
Diameter
31 mm
Thickness
2 mm
Shape
Hexagonal (6-sided)
Demonetized
Yes
Updated
2024-11-13
References
Numista
N#128392
Rarity index
93%

Reverse

Continuous circle containing in the center the phrase, read from top to bottom with the words DEPOSITE NA CAIXA.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
DEPOSITE
NA
CAIXA

Translation:
DEPOSIT
IN THE
BOX

Edge

Plain

Comment

Token used for bus ticket payment in the 1960s.
http://fichadeonibus.blogspot.com.br/2015/04/viacao-novacap.html

Example of translucent variant:


Viação Novacap is a Brazilian urban public transport company in the city of Rio de Janeiro. It is a municipal concessionaire, being affiliated with Rio Bus.

Its name comes from the contraction of the words "New Capital", in homage to the new capital of the country, Brasília, inaugurated on April 21, 1960. It is based in Vila Valqueire.

Brief history.
Founded in May of 1961, in 1981 acquired by the current group of partners, owning one of the newest fleets of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro with average age of 2.2 years. Novacap is the fourth company in Rio de Janeiro that carries the most gratuities (old people, students of the public network, disabled people, etc.).

Currently, the company has a fleet with 145 buses and employs 784 employees, acting in the connection between neighborhoods of the suburb of the North Zone.

After the standardization imposed by the municipal public power in 2010, it left its original colors and began to adopt the painting of the Transcarioca Consortium.
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Novacap