Crown Tourist Hotel

24mm, WM

About this token:

• There is a more likely candidate than Seoul or Pusan.
  In Seoul, for example, the name is "Hotel Crown Itaewon" (www.asiahotels.net/mykoreahotels/seoul/crown/index.php3) or "Hotel Crown Insadong" (www.asiahotels.net/mykoreahotels/seoul/hotel-crown-insadong/index.php3) ... and the logo is not the same
  In Pusan, again, "Hotel Crown Busan" and a different logo Please see the Crown Hotel (www.rao-osan.com/osan-info/offbase/hotels/crown.jpg) in Pyeongtaek (sometimes still called Songtan, outside the Osan Airbase, about an hour south of Seoul). This might be the place, given the large numbers of GIs and "tourist hotels" (www.rao-osan.com/osan-info/offbase/hotels.htm) ...
  Note that all four hotels have been known as "Crown Tourist Hotel"
• The Crown Tourist Hotel token is definitely from Korea. The inscription on the back says exactly the same as whats on the front. I have been cataloging Korean hotel tokens for some time. Don't know where to list this one, as there were two Crown Hotels in Korea -- one in Seoul and one in Pusan. I suspect this is from Seoul, but have no evidence either way
• Note: I got this in a lot with several other tokens, which were from Seoul. So this token is probably from Seoul as well.

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