German Jeton - Daniel in the Lions Den

[gmarguli]

Recently picked this one up for no other reason than it looked cool.

 

 

It's bigger than a quarter, but smaller than a half dollar. Minted in copper. Likely minted in the 19th century. The selling dealer was nice enough to give me the date range of 1400-1900.

 

Listed in Neumann as #32978 under "Not Further Specified". Basically, we don't know what the hell it is.

[JamminJ]

Where did you get it? Certainly not your ususal type of thing. Sorta looks like a babtismal thaler.

 

I'll help narrow the date range, I can authoritatively state its from between 1401-1900.

[gmarguli]

I got it from Pater. I was looking to buy something and came across this on his site. He called it a Rechenpfennig, but upon some hard core numismatic research (blind luck email to a German guy) I found out it is a jeton.

[shirohniichan]

I'll admit that it's a mighty unusual piece.

[physics-fan3.14]

What on earth is a jeton? Never heard that term before.

[gmarguli]

What on earth is a jeton? Never heard that term before.

 

It means token.

[physics-fan3.14]

Oh. That makes sense.