Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Coin Auctions
Lot 0106a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleRomania > Bucuresci (Transylvania): "Jsak [Isaac] Focşaner" Zionist coffee & tea house copper token for 50 Bani (ND), c. early 1920's; no maker marks; size: 25.25mm; weight: 3.65g; medallic strike, beeded edge. Obv.: Star of David with Hebrew w/ "Zion" in center; leg. "Jsak Focşaner * Bucuresci *". Rev.: "50" in center. Located 361 Calea Mosilor (1912). Zionist connection possibly due to owner's name: during 1st Aliya period (1860- 1903), 1st Congress of all Zionist Unions in Romania held in town of Focşani (30-31/12/1881). In VF-EF: obv. missing letters due to filled die; Schaffer BUC-650: extreme rarity (6-15pc). Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0101a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleIsrael: lot x11 business/machine tokens, circa. 1960s-'70s, includes "Yavnir", "HaMarva", the 'Central Chicken-Coop Depot', "Copimat" (x2), "Cellmatic", "Tnuva" milk, "Shitta Automatim", "Medimat" (x2). Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0107a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleRomania > Bucuresci (Transylvania): "Jsak [Isaac] Focşaner" Zionist coffee & tea house copper-nickel token for 1 Leu (ND), c. early 1920's; no maker marks; size: 25.5mm; weight: 4.1g; medallic strike, beeded edge. Obv.: Star of David with Hebrew w/ "Zion" in center; leg. "Jsak Focşaner * Bucuresci *". Rev.: "1 Leu" in center. Located 361 Calea Mosilor (1912). Zionist connection possibly due to owner's name: during 1st Aliya period (1860- 1903), 1st Congress of all Zionist Unions in Romania held in town of Focşani (30-31/12/1881). In VF, with slight clip missing from top left (possibly as manufactured); Schaffer BUC-651: extreme rarity (6-15pc). Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0102a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleIsrael: lot x3 transportation tokens - 1) 'Carmelit'/Haifa funicular subway brass token for Hadar and 2) copper-nickel token Carmel (both minted in France), and 3) Lod Airport (pre-1973) parking token. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0108a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleRomania > Bucuresci (Transylvania): "Jsak [Isaac] Focşaner" Zionist coffee and tea house brass token for 10 Bani (ND), c. early 1920's; no maker marks; size: 25.5mm; weight: 4.3g; medallic strike, beeded edge. Obv.: Star of David with Hebrew w/ "Zion" in center; leg. "Jsak Focşaner * Bucuresci *". Rev.: "10" in center; leg. "Cafenea si Ceainerie Moderna" ['Modern Coffee & Tea House']. Located 361 Calea Mosilor (1912). Zionist connection possibly due to owner's name: during 1st Aliya period (1860- 1903), 1st Congress of all Zionist Unions in Romania held in town of Focşani (30-31/12/1881). In VF; Schaffer BUC-649: extreme rarity (6-15pc). Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0103a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleIsrael: lot x7 bakelite ship cafeteria tokens from Sommerfin and Zim lines, circa. 1960s. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0109a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleSouth Africa > Orange Free State: "Daniel & Hyman" Jewish business of Bloemfontein 2 Shilling cupro-nickel token, 1867; not maker-marked; size: 30mm; weight: 6.85g. Obv.:s "2/=" denomination in center & Afrikaans legend "Goed Voor Daniel & Hyman". Rev.: Orange Free State emblem & Afrikaans legend around "Bloemfontein Oranje Vry Staat 1867". The partners opened this "Storekeepers and General Dealers" business in 1864, and issued these tokens to overcome a shortage of small change. They were minted by a Birmingham coinmaker but withdrawn when counterfeited. Ref: Theron O1; Maynard M.2; Hern p.59. In VF. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0104a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleLot x5 continental-European Jewish business non-denominational tokens, c. 1900-1925: 1) Rudolph Hertzog (manufacturer), Berlin decagonal brass token in UNC-BU; 2) Michelangelo Jesurum & Co. (lace-maker), Venice, encased 1 Centisimo token, 1904, UNC-BU (sm. rim nick at top); 3) Firma Valentin Manheimer (confectionary) 75th anniversary token, 1914, by Ludwig Ostermann & Otto Oertel, VF-EF; 4) Jacob Rothberger (clothing deparment store), Vienna brass token, UNC-BU; 5) J. Senft (bakery), Vienna uniface iron token, EF (rust spot on rim). Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0110a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleUnited States > Michigan: S. Cohen of Detroit American Civil War-era Jewish business copper token, 1863; not maker-marked; size: 19mm; weight: 3.85g. Obverse bears 5-lined legend "S. Cohen # Clothing # Dealer # 155 Jeff.[erson] Ave. / Detroit." On obverse left facing Indian-head with 13 stars above and date below. In UNC: some surface dirt; lack of edge detail due to quality of the strike. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0105a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SalePalestine/Israel: "Efrat" Wine metal label, circa. 1930s/1950s; size: 59.5 x 47.5mm; 7.45g. The plate reads "Established 5640 [1870] # "Efrat" # Jerusalem • Tel-Aviv # 'LeChaim' [To Life - a toast] # Wished by # M. Teperberg". Avraham & Zeev Teperberg est. the 1st Jewish winery in the Holyland (Jewish Quarter, Old City Jerusalem); originally called "Efrat"; son Mordechai assumed management, 1905; in the late 1920s - early '30s, Teperbergs received exclusive franchise to produce alcoholic beverages & established plant in Sarona; bankrupt late 1930's when exclusivity ended & re-est. 1950; now 4th largest in Israel. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |