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Description: | The Department of Coins and Medals curates and organises a large collection of approximately 4,000 tokens and 2,000 jetons, forms of Ãsubstitute moneyÃ' dating from the thirteenth century to the present day. Jetons were Ãcoin-like medalsÃ' produced across Europe for use in mechanical calculations and betting games between the thirteenth and seventeeth centuries.
The main period for British token production was the seventeenth century, especially between 1644 and 1672 when there was no state production of small copper coins. The QueensÃ' College collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum includes nearly 3,000 such seventeenth century tokens, issued by individual merchants and collected by customers for future conversion into larger currency. Such tokens represent an important local history resource, as many can be traced to specific people and organisations existing at known dates.
The token collection also includes several hundred Hop tokens from the eighteenth, nineteenth and earliest twentieth centuries, used as interim payments to hop pickers in the South and West of England and exchangeable for cash at the end of the season. Modern tokens are also collected and curated by the Department, including items such as plastic or brass tokens issued for car parking, telephone credit, restroom admission and so on. | Subjects: | Numismatics Tokens Trade tokens | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01223 332 923 | Telephone: | 01223 332 900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8368 | Go to resource |
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