Token 37 – South West Africa (Namibia) – Windhoek Bus Token – Stage 2

Token 37 – South West Africa (Namibia) – Windhoek Bus Token – Stage 2

Original Windhoek bus token, a fascinating piece of the city's public-transport history and an unusual example of South West African transport exonumia.

This distinctive red round token with a central hole belongs to the second stage of the Windhoek bus-token series. It was associated with the public bus system serving Windhoek and represents the practical use of transport tokens in everyday urban life.

The red colour and distinctive perforated design give this token an immediately recognisable appearance. For collectors, such transport tokens are particularly interesting because they preserve a small but tangible part of ordinary daily life in historic Windhoek—the way residents travelled around the city.

Windhoek has a long-established municipal public-transport tradition, and the city's bus network remains an important part of urban life today.

Token 38 – the yellow Stage 1 Windhoek bus token – is an especially interesting companion to this piece. The different colours and stages make the two tokens an attractive potential pair for collectors wishing to document the development of Windhoek's bus-token system.

For collectors of South West Africa (Namibia), Windhoek, transport tokens and African exonumia, this is an appealing and unusual historical piece with a very specific local connection.

An excellent original piece of Windhoek transport history, representing the everyday experience of public transportation in the city and particularly attractive when paired with Token 38, the earlier Stage 1 example.