½ Pasaje - Omnibus de la Habana

Issuer Cuba

Type Public transportation tokens

Obverse

In the center of a perforated, vertical stripe with the initials of the company in two lines, o / N. Within two concentric circles OMNIBUS Havana.

Lettering: OMNIBUS O H • DE LA HABANA •

Reverse

In the center of the band, value, ½. For about two concentric circles, VALE POR MEDIO Pasaje. For a reverse translation "is half of the rate" .

Lettering: VALE POR 1/2 • MEDIO PASAJE •

Basic Information

Category Exonumia

Technique Milled

Orientation medal

Face Value ½ Pasaje (Numeric: 0.5) (Fraction: 1/2)

Physical Characteristics

Composition Nickel

Weight 1.56 g

Size 15 mm

Thickness 1.4 mm

Shape Round with cutouts

Technical Details

Obverse Lettering

OMNIBUS O H • DE LA HABANA •

Reverse Lettering

VALE POR 1/2 • MEDIO PASAJE •

Comments

This bus Company was founded in the late 1920s but it was short lived. It was a luxurious kind of service but couldn't compete with other lines because it is charged ten cents, as opposed to five cents behind the other. The reason for this curious Half the rate the implication was that as an incentive in his waning years, he gave the sign half fare for each Two ten Cent prices collected. In other words, if the passenger asked for a Fare, he will give the conductor twenty cents, and return Half the fare. Two of these markers then paid for the future so ride.