The head of the city’s transit system stood aside expectantly as Rubiela Velez strode through a swarm of cameras, held up two fingers, and bought the last tokens ever sold on the MBTA. After nearly 90 ...

The last train has left the station for subway tokens. After 50 years of use, the sale of brass tokens – embossed with the logo “Good For One Fare” – ended at 12:01 a.m. today. The Metropolitan ...

When my marriage was freshly minted, my husband and I honeymooned on an Alaskan cruise. We wandered delirious with exhaustion—and eventually fever— from buffet to day excursion to cabin. In Anchorage, ...

I was a miner in the Yorkshire pits for 33 years and have now retired. For the past few years, I have been an avid collector of colliery checks, tallies or tokens. These were brass discs and were ...