Two other Monopoly pieces – the horse and rider, and the howitzer – were also retired that same year. The sack on money was not the only Monopoly piece to be retired in 2007. It was used for a decade before retiring in 2007. With 51% of the vote, the sack of money won. 1.5 million people voted in a competition to decide whether the new token would be a sack of money, a piggy bank, or a bi-plane. In 1998, with Hasbro now in charge, a new playing piece was added. Those eight Monopoly game pieces formed the backbone of the game for many years.
MONOPOLY ORIGINAL LICENSE
When Parker Brothers began to license the game around the world they included the same pieces with the game.įrom 1950 until 1998 the Monopoly game pieces stayed the same – they were the dog, battleship, race car, top hat, iron, horse and rider, and howitzer. The first playing pieces were made by Dowst Manufacturing Company. These were replaced later in the 1930s by tokens made from a mix of lead and tin, which didn’t oxidize and turn black in the same way as the Zamak tokens sometimes did. The first Monopoly tokens were made from a zinc alloy known as Zamak.
It’s worth noting that there’s some contention over the exact dates for when tokens were introduced, so I’ve used the best estimates. Over the next 12 months, two more pieces were added: the lantern and the rocking horse to make what is considered to be the ten classic Monopoly pieces. Later in 1935, the race car was added to the game to make seven Monopoly tokens, and shortly afterward, the purse was added to make eight. The six original Monopoly pieces in 1935:
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