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SOLD FOR £251
Belgium Leopold I 5 Francs laureate head
1834 silver coin
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SOLD FOR £205
Armenia 100,000 Dram 2009
SOLD FOR £192
Luxembourg 5 Mark ‘Die International Bank in
Luxemburg’ August 1914
SOLD FOR £571
France 10 Cmes 1852 Louis-Napoléon
Bonaparte essai de Barre
SOLD FOR £262
Italy 50 lire 1951 SPECIMEN note
Coins on
a budget
This month’s bargain coin is a little
different, since it’s a ‘jeton’, purchased
for £4 at an antique and collectors
market, writes Ed Archer. Jetons are
often mistaken for medieval coins,
however they are essential to the
understanding of the economics of the
Middle Ages.
Jetons take their name from the
French word ‘jeter’, meaning ‘to
throw’, and are sometimes referred
to as casting counters. They were
placed on a board which had columns
of units and tens, hundreds and
thousands. Thus to enter 101, one
counter goes in the units column and
the next one is placed in the hundreds
column. In this way the accountants
of the time could do their sums with
ease. The use of jetons became more
popular than the abacus.
The jeton illustrated has an image
of a ship on the reverse with an
inscription that refers to George
Schultes, 1552. On the obverse there
is a lozenge containing the French
Fleur de Lys, again a reference to
George Schultes, and the date 1553.
The Schultes family made a wide
variety of jetons with different designs
at their workshops in Nuremberg,
South Germany. However, they were
not the only manufacturers of Jetons,
the Krauwinkel family also made large
numbers of them.
SOLD FOR £396
France Louis XIII Half Louis d’Or 1642 VF
SOLD FOR £251
French Pacific Territories 10,000 francs CFP
(Papeete 1985)
SOLD FOR £168
Antic Greece Eubée Histiée Tetrobol silver coin
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