Identifying Tokens
Cross-brand reference for grading, composition, mintmarks, orientation, fakes, and reading catalog codes.
5 guides in this series
Identifying Composition by Sight
How to recognize the common token compositions (brass, nickel, copper, anodized, painted, wood, plastic) by visual cues and catalog suffix.
Mintmarks Across the Chains
A cross-brand reference for the mintmarks that appear on cectoken catalog pieces: RWM, HM, HH, OC, and the variants they create.
Coin vs Medal Orientation
How to tell coin orientation from medal orientation, why the catalog tracks both, and what orientation says about how a token was struck.
Reading Catalog Codes
How to read the cectoken catalog code format: brand prefix, type-and-sequence number, composition suffix, and variant qualifier.
International Tokens Across the Brands
A cross-brand reference for the four international token clusters in the catalog: Saudi Arabia (CEC), UK and UAE (Showbiz), Mexico (Showbiz Fiesta), and Australia (Charlie Cheese's).