Cannot find this coin in Krause ?

[dooly]

Hi all found this french coin in a job lot of coins i won at my local auction room last week

i have searched through Krause with no sucksess any one out there any ideas ?

 

 

thanks

[satootoko]

Amiens is a city in France and this is probably a token produced by its Chamber of Commerce, similar to the ones being offered about one-quarter of the way down the page at http://www.coinsale.co.uk/tokens.htm.

 

(What happened to the forum facility for giving a text name for a link?

 

EDIT: If the above link doesn't work for you, try typing it from scratch in the address box. I have no idea why it works for me when input directly, but doesn't seem to work from the posted link. (Great place for the "shrug" smiley we used to have.)

[spiny]

[spiny]

Oh, and there were a series of French Chamber of Commerce coins/tokens issued about the same time frame that are listed in the Krause. I've gotten some every time I've bought poundage. I'd guess this one is related to those.

[Conder101]

This is a piece of French emergency money. It is the the French equivilent of German Notgeld coinage. The only book I know of in English on these tokens is "A Catalogue of French Emergency Tokens of 1914 - 1922 by Robert A Lamb Copyright 1967. There is a book on the subject in French but I don't have a copy of it yet.

 

This piece is listed as Amiens Lamb 1.4 It's probably worth around $5 or so.

 

I still need one Amiens token, Lamb 2.1 (Yes I collect French "notgeld" as well.)

[dooly]

Thanks for that Conder101 $5 i am happy at that as it was just in a box of world coins which cost very little