While most telephone tokens are round, some have different shapes as well.

Telephone tokens," he then translated for the stupid tourist. "

Just a minute," said Remo as three more telephone tokens disappeared into the machine. "

An example of this is Italian or Israeli telephone tokens, which were always good for the same service (i.e., one phone call) even as prices increased.

Normal pay telephones These accept telephone tokens (gettoni), coins and phonecards (schede telefonica).

Targonsky, Paul: A Catalogue of Telephone Tokens of the World.

Telephone tokens were once widespread medium of exchange for people wanting to talk on public phones with someone before there were telephone cards to collect and use.