<p>It's a spare piece. Usually these kinds of tokens are printed on a sheet of cardboard that's big enough to fit in the game box, and if there's a bit of extra space then a few extra things might be put on the board to fill the space. Those tokens can then be used as replacements for the main tokens - so if, for example, you lost the green one, you can just state that the grey token replaces the green.</p>

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ConMan
<p>Catan cities and knights has four colored circular tokens.  There is a yellow, blue, and green to indicate when someone has acquired the metropolis for trade, politics and science respectively.  There are also a white and grey one.  My question is what are the white and grey one for?  I couldn't find any reference to it in the rules.</p>

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Which edition do you have? I have the original wood edition and the chips for the metropolis are all the same color, and there is no additional chip in the box.
Polygnome
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I have the 5th edition.
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# White token in Catan cities and knights

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-01-14)

Catan cities and knights has four colored circular tokens. There is a yellow, blue, and green to indicate when someone has acquired the metropolis for trade, politics and science respectively. There are also a white and grey one. My question is what are the white and grey one for? I couldn't find any reference to it in the rules.

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Which edition do you have? I have the original wood edition and the chips for the metropolis are all the same color, and there is no additional chip in the box.  
> **username_0**: I have the 5th edition.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2017-01-15. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

It's a spare piece. Usually these kinds of tokens are printed on a sheet of cardboard that's big enough to fit in the game box, and if there's a bit of extra space then a few extra things might be put on the board to fill the space. Those tokens can then be used as replacements for the main tokens - so if, for example, you lost the green one, you can just state that the grey token replaces the green.


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