Here is America's first and New York City's # 1 automated transport card.
These thin plastic wafers have made the use of tokens
( the traditional payment for NY's subways & buses ) virtually obsolete.

America has been the last country to modernize in many ways,
such as the use of 'handy' phones and 'smartcards'.
But here is the first of an enormous wave about to sweep the Nation.

All of these multi color ( NY City's official colors = orange & blue )
'mag-stripe' cards are in excellent, spent condition.