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Gas meter token (Elbląg)
Category Gas meters
Subcategory Tokens
Year of manufacture/creation early 20th century
Manufacturer/author Elbląg Gasworks
Place of manufacture/creation Elbląg, then Germany
Size
Diameter: varied, approximately 2.26 cm
Weight: 3,35 - 3,6 g
Material public domain
Museum/Storage location Gasworks Museum in Paczków
Date of admission to the museum 1992
Rights to the exhibit Gasworks Museum in Paczków
Rights to digital images public domain
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Exhibit description
There were two reasons for the development and popularisation of automated gas meters. First, if you did not pay, you could not use it, so there was no problem with unpaid bills. The second was to facilitate the work of meter men, who, for gas meters of this type, did not have to calculate the consumption according to the meter recordings but only emptied gas meter containers for coins or tokens. The tokens were returned to a clerk after they were used and collected by the meter man, and a potential user could purchase them.
