Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Coin Auctions
Lot 0091a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleBritain: lot x4 Isaac Earlysman Sparrow copper farthing tokens: 1) obv. "Ascended at Oxford # June 23 1823" w. hot-air balloon/ "Ironmonger Bishopsgate London" w. left portrait, milled rim, in F-VF, Batty-401O; 2) "Ironmonger Bishopsgate London" w. hot-air balloon/ "Isaac Earlysman 1*8 Sparrow 2*5" w. left portrait, milled rim, in F; 3) "Sparrow Nail Merchant • London" w. hot-air balloon/ "Sparrow's Leather Sauce", plain rim, in VF-EF, Batty-487O; 4) "Ironmonger Bishopsgate London" w. hot-air balloon/ "Isaac Earlysman * Sparrow *" (ND) w. left portrait, coin alignment & milled rim, in EF-AU, Batty-400O. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0086a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleAustralia: Levy Brothers of Melbourne [Jewish] merchant copper Penny 1855 (A.320, KM #Tn147); size: 33.75mm; weight: 15.85g; in VF+. Obv.: double ring leg.: "Levy Brothers • Arcade, Melbourne" and 4-line legend within: "Importers of Fancy Goods". Rev.: 'Justice' w/"Australia" above & date in exergue. In 1852 the Levy brothers, Goodman, Nathaniel and Lewis, established a luxury goods warehouse and importing business on Lonsdale Street, and the following year added a few more shops to their business; by 1912 the business had overseas branches in Europe and America. Cat val $750+ Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0097a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany > Hamburg: Lowenthal Brothers business token in bronze, c. 1888; not maker-marked; size: 22mm; weight: 3.75g. Obv. legend "Gebrüder Löwenthal Juweliere & Uhrmacher Hamburg Wexstr.33" ['Lowenthal Brothers Jewellers & Watchmakers Hamburg Wex Street 33']. Rev.: right-facing King Friedrich III and legend "Friedrich German Emperor and King of Prussia" (1888 - he was the German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days in 1888). The Jewish firm may have chosen to feature the Emperor and King on their token in appreciation of his liberal outlook. Ref: Krawinkel L017.01. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0092a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleBritain: lot x8 British Jewish merchant/ business tokens, circa. late 18th-19th C.: 1) New Houses Parliament/ Queen Victoria by Hyam Hyams/ Allen & Moore, 1847, VF+; 2) Louis Silberberg 'Habana Cigar Co...', 1866, EF-AU (bent planchet); 3) Lewis Levy Borough Market 1 Shilling by R. Neal, VF+; 4) Louis Silberberg 'Agent Schreckensteins...', VF-EF; 5) Morgan & Biermann (fruit importers), Cardiff 2 Shilling by Carter/ Birmingham, VF-EF; 6) Warwickshire Isaac Perrins [Jewish boxer] Penny, 1789, F-VF; 7) B. Hyam 'Manufacturing Clothiers'/ 3 garments halfpenny, F; 8) Elias Moses [H. Hyams son in law] & Son, London calendar/ Duke Wellington, 1856, VF. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0087a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleBarbados: Moses Tolanto unredeemed Farthing ND, in copper; size: 21.75mm; weight: 4.5g. Obv.: bale with initials "M.T" at top; legend around "Moses Tolanto Barbados". Rev.: barrel at center w/ initials "MT" at top; legend around "Freedom Without Slavery "; rosette at base. Lacking slash-marks, this is a scarce example of an unredeemed token. Moses Tolano (1814-1852; surname misspelled on token) was a Sephardic Jew operating the business on 33 Swan Street, Bridgetown; he issued these tokens for redemption at his shop at the time of emancipation (1834). In EF; Pridmore 28, Atkins-14 p.314. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0098a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleGermany/Austria: lot x17 Jewish merchant/ business tokens, mostly denominated, circa. 1900-25, most UNC-BU: x2 Hermann Tietz, Berlin; Ludwig Lowe, Berlin; F. Rosenfeld, Vienna 'Geschäfts-Marke'; G. V. Lassalle 'Freedom * Equality * Brotherhood' token; Mayer Kauffmann, Tannhausen Silesia porcelain token, 1921; x2 Henry Seligmann, Hannover (coin dealer), 1921; x2 H. Heymann, Sachsenhausen beer tokens; x2 Goldschmidt & Loewenick, Frankfurt (shoe factory); x2 Abraham Dreyfus - Mulhausen, Alsace (mill; relative of Alfred Dreyfus); x2 Abraham Wertheim, Berlin (department store); [Abraham] Adolf Jandorf, Berlin (dept store). Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0093a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleEgypt: Maspero Brothers Cigarette company bronze token, circa. 1930s; not maker-marked; size: 22.75mm; weight: 4.55g. Obv.: stylized face set against the sun(?); French legend "Maspero Freres Ltd • Caire - Egypte". Rev.: oval eye-like device; French title above & below "Cigarettes Egyptiennes". In VF-EF: even on better grade examples, the bottom stroke of oval device on rev. is unclear (from weak die strike). Founded in Egypt by Italian Jews; retained a storage facility in Jaffo, 1911-1914; began operations in Palestine, 1921; a subsidiary of "British American Tobacco" co.; closed in 1956 & sold brands to "Dubek". Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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Lot 0088a - Medals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens - Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleBarbados: Moses Tolanto unredeemed Halfpenny ND, in copper; size: 28.5mm; weight: 8.75g. Obv.: bale with initials "M.T" at top; legend around "Moses Tolanto Barbados". Rev.: barrel at center w/ initials "MT" at top; legend around "Freedom Without Slavery "; rosette at base. Lacking slash-marks, this is a scarce example of an unredeemed token. Moses Tolano (1814-1852; surname misspelled on token) was a Sephardic Jew operating the business on 33 Swan Street, Bridgetown; he issued these tokens for redemption at his shop at the time of emancipation (1834). In VF; Pridmore 27 p.89, KM-Tn3, Atkins-13 p.314. Historama SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid SaleMedals & Tokens Jewish Merchant & Business Tokens |
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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 |