Every now and then something unusual comes along that's actually pretty interesting - like this: A collection of U.S. gaming tokens dating from 1966, issued in the early days of the Franklin Mint and housed in a special album.

The collection contains 72 different tokens from various casinos in better condition that you're likely to find if you could even locate examples of each individually. There were apparently 3100 sets issued which doesn't seem that many given the size of the U.S. - I certainly haven't seen a collection offered in New Zealand before.

The collection weighs a little over 2.5 kilograms. There's a set currently offered on ebay at slightly under NZ$400 although they probably won't ship to New Zealand and even if they did there would probably be GST to pay.

Signs of age as you'd expect but a nice set with lots of interesting tokens, good start price too.