JAMESTOWN — Want to buy a token for the Pell Bridge toll? Don’t bother.

Want to buy 350,000 of them? Buddy Croft, the executive director of the state Turnpike and Bridge Authority, wants to hear from you.

The authority switched from tokens to the electronic E-ZPass system in January. It will continue to redeem tokens for cash until the end of next month.

So far, the people who seem most interested in the brass tokens are artists. “We’re receiving inquiries from sculptors,” Croft said. Some of them are apparently thinking about creating sculpture by welding tokens — lots of them — together.

A likely destination for heaps of obsolete tokens is scrap. In 2007, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission sold more than 3 million tokens — 23,000 pounds of them — for scrap for $54,000.

There’s also an active market for old tokens, although probably not 350,000 of them.

The New York Metropolitan Transit Authority’s memorabilia store sells 10 kinds of vintage tokens — tokens with Y-shaped holes, tokens with round holes, even tokens with five-sided holes.

Croft said that the authority will issue a request for proposals to see who’s interested in buying the tokens.

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