Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Coin Auctions
Lot 0083a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleArgentina: Tierra del Fuego 1 Gramo gold token, 1889; size: 13.5mm; weight: 1g; coin alignment. Obv. leg: "Tierra Del Fuego 1889" (w/o dots) & name "POP.PER" across granulated field. Rev. leg: "El Paramo # Un Gramo", w/crossed pick & hammer on round granuated field; numbers "AU 864 AG 132" (86.4% gold + 13.2% silver). In BU: some doubling; no test marks visible; KM-TN5. Issued as local currency by Julius Popper (1857-1893), Romanian-Jewish adventurer & French-educated mining engineer, who established El Paramo (the Moor) gold mining settlement on Tierra del Fuego island in 1887, following successful 1886 expedition which yielded gold dust there. The settlement was guarded by small private 'army' outfitted in quasi-Austro-Hungarian uniforms, fending off attacks from Chile & Argentina. Popper's father, Naftali, was headmaster of first modern ('Haskala') Jewish school in Bucharest & founder of the Jewish weekly newspaper 'Di Zait'. Friedenberg comments that Popper's coins "are the only gold coins ever issued by a Jew before the emergence of modern Israel"; JMM p.4-5. Popper died under mysterious circumstances. Est. cat. val: $3000+ Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0099a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGreat Britain: Louis Silberberg bronze merchant token, ND (mid-19th Century); not maker-marked; size: 2.45cm; weight: 4.6g. On obverse 6-line legend "Louis Silberberg # 194 Fleet St. # & 19 St Martin's # Le-Grand # London". On reverse 5-line legend in center and legend around edge in double ring: "Sole Agent For Schreckenstein's Bremen Cogars & Tobacco • Cigars Tobacco & Fancy Snuffs Wholesale & Retail." Beeded edge; in UNC. Ref: Mitchiner 7409. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0094a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleFrance: Alfred Dreyfus of Lyon drapery business token, c. 1880s-90s; not maker-marked; size: 32mm; weight: 8.8g. Obv.: 6 lined French legend "A La Ville de Lyon Magasin de Nouveautés Alfred Dreyfus • Galarie du Roi No1 Rue de Bouchers . 42 . 44 Bruxelles". Rev.: 7 lined legend: "A La Ville de Lyon On a 3 Jours Pour Obtenir Le Remboursement des Articles Qui ne Conviendraient Plus Toutes les Marchandises Sont Marqués En Chiffres Connus Prix Fixe". The token mentions a Brussels branch, a 3-day return period and the use of fixed-prices. The ill-famed Captain Dreyfus was on the board of a family business but unknown if this was the one. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0089a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleBritain > Birmingham: Jewish merchant token in bronze, Ephraim Nathan, c. 1872; not maker-marked; size: 22mm; weight: 3.45g. Obverse bears legend: "The Noted Shop for Cheap Electro Plate & Cutlery Eph. Nathan 71 Bull St. Birmm." On reverse left facing portrait of Queen Victoria and date 1872. In VF. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0084a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleAustralia > Tasmania: Halfpenny mule token issued by Ruben Josephs, Van Diemen's Land toll gate operator, 1855; minted by W.J. Taylor of London; size: 27.75mm; weight: 6g. Obv.: toll gate w/ leg. around "New Town Toll Gate * R. Josephs *". Rev.: 'Justice' seated on wool bale & commerce symbols; leg. "Van Diemen's Land # 1855". Josephs was a convict transported to Australia in 1827, gained his freedom in 1841, and won tender to operate New Town toll gate for 3 years in 1852: issued these 'Toll Gate' tokens to profit from giving change to people passing through his gate. In EF-AU; KM# Tn140 & Andrews-310. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0100a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleIsrael: "Drom Yehuda" (South Judea) bus cooperative 2 Prutot aluminum token, 1950; not maker-marked; size: 23mm; weight: 1.55g; in AU. The "Drom Yehuda" bus cooperative was established in 1931 through a merger of two existing cooperatives, "Darom" and "Yehuda". It operated mainly in the southern part of Israel until 1951 when it merged with two other bus cooperatives to form the present nationwide "Egged" cooperative. Drom Yehuda was the only road transportation operator to issue a metal token. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0095a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany > Berlin: encased stamp merchant token for N. Israel of Berlin (ND); size: 32.5mm; weight: 1.15g. Obv. legend: "Wäsche, Möbel, Modewaren # N. Israel # Berlin C." ['Linens, Furniture, Fashion-goods']. Rev.: encased 10pf 'Germania' stamp. 'Kaufhaus Nathan Israel' (Nathan Israel's Department Store) was a famous Berlin department store, founded in 1815 and by 1930 one of the largest retail establishments in Europe. Owned by Jews, it was boycotted by Nazi government and destroyed during Kristallnacht in 1938. Its manager Wilfrid Israel (1899-1943) was secretly active rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0090a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleBritain > Wales: Rabaiotti Brothers 1 penny uniface brass token ND, c.1900-1925; not maker-marked; size: 25.5mm; weight: 5g. Undocumented: probably issued by "Pollardi & Rabaiotti Brothers, Confectioners" of 28 Commercial Street, Aberdare in South [east] Wales, also listed as operating at 8 Dimond St., Pembroke Dock Town, South West Wales. The business was in existence at least up to the early-mid 1920's. As our consignor collected all manner of Judaic numismatics, this may have been a Jewish business. Records show that there was a Jewish community in Aberdare (90 Jews in 1935) though no known community in Pembroke. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0085a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleAustralia > Tasmania: Penny mule token issued by Ruben Josephs, Van Diemen's Land toll gate operator, 1855; minted by W.J. Taylor of London; size: 34mm; weight: 14.35g. Obv.: toll gate w/ leg. around "New Town Toll Gate * R. Josephs *". Rev.: 'Justice' seated on wool bale & commerce symbols; leg. "Van Diemen's Land # 1855". Josephs was a convict transported to Australia in 1827, gained his freedom in 1841, and won tender to operate New Town toll gate for 3 years in 1852: issued these 'Toll Gate' tokens to profit from giving change to people passing through his gate. In AU-UNC w/ white paint spots; KM# Tn141 & Andr-309. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0096a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany > Hamburg: Jewish calendar medal ("kalendermedaille") for 1804/ 5565; struck in silver; by Abraham Abrahamson (unmarked); size: 42.5mm; weight: 20.45g. Obv.: annual dates for Sundays of each month; Jewish year '5565' & holiday dates below. Rev.: table w/ operating times of Hamburg castle gates. Medal was commissioned by Hamburg coin dealer, Jobst Schramm. The inclusion of Jewish dates and holidays highlights the importance of the local Jewish merchant community of the time. In VF+/EF; Feille-3776; Gaed. #2006, vol. 3; JM-78/143. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |