If you don't earn enough tokens, you're forbidden from doing things such as joining the school football team or, if you're in year six, luxuriating in the traditional privilege of sitting on benches (and not the floor) during assembly.
A very large number of boxes containing valentines were posted this year, the affection for substantial tokens of regard, or otherwise, being apparently on the increase.
2. Don't buy books Relatives love giving book tokens, according to the The Student Room website.
However, the metal balls that players "win" on the machines can also be swapped for tokens and then for cash, at a separate premises nearby.
That, at least, is how some people viewed news this week that the Consumer Affairs Agency was investigating a feature, popular on Japan's ubiquitous mobile-phone games, called a "complete gacha", in which players collect sets of randomly generated tokens to swap for in-game rewards.
Each player was given a number of virtual tokens, redeemable for money at the end of the game.
IN 1904 a young American named Elizabeth Magie received a patent for a board game in which players used tokens to move around a four-sided board buying properties, avoiding taxes and jail, and collecting $100 every time they passed the board's starting-point.
Recently Gaza has woken daily to new tokens of the lawlessness that has reigned there since the Israeli disengagement.
These include USB sticks, chips on fobs and other tokens.
The irresistible businesses that can work only with digital cash will not arrive unless enough people have digital cash to spend, but few people are willing to lock up good money in electronic tokens with nowhere to spend them.To succeed, digital cash needs a bridge between the old world and the new.
The search giant, together with other web behemoths like PayPal and hardware-makers such as Lenovo and LG, have forged the FIDO Alliance to develop alternative authentication methods employing a panoply of USB sticks, key-fob chips and other tokens (as well as biometric markers).That, though, which users have so far been loth to adopt.
