2020-06-26
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Payment coins tokens
Coins the tokens represent a very curious specimen of the attempts to eliminate the circulation of money from the sphere of internal circulation of commercial structures, such as clubs, gambling houses, restaurants, hotels, shops, etc.
Everyone who at least once in their life visited a casino or watched the film “CasinoRoyal” with Daniel Craig as James bond, couldn't pay attention to what the players before you bet, get – buy casino chips of different values, and it chips the players put in a room betting on the green baize of a roulette wheel or on a table for a card game. It is assumed that this procedure allows players to part with their money. But this theme – not only from casino to life.
Imagine the restaurant of the famous Moscow 'Yar' with the Gypsies or the restaurant 'Moscow nobility club': luxury furnished, customers, waiters, the singing and dancing of the Gypsies who entertain visitors and at the same time prevent the waiters to focus. The waiters take the orders, bring the orders to the cooks, then bring food and drinks to restaurant customers, and the orders followed by order – it is no wonder confused.
If the waiter passes the order to the kitchen on paper is one thing. But if the waiter when the order to the kitchen makes the order amount in coins, which he took under report or bought pre-own money in the cashier of the restaurant is quite another matter: he and the order is not messed up, and more closely to observe the movements of the customer in the restaurant, because the reservation is already paid tokens waiter. After receiving a visitor of the restaurant payment account with real money the waiter makes the money in cash - minus your tip and get back to them earlier introduced tokens, which will again be put into circulation with the next visitor.
Not only gambling houses and restaurants – some stores have ordered in the stamping workshops branded tokens and practiced the delivery date for regular visitors their tokens for small amounts, further by linking customers to your favorite bakery to a nearby Barber shop, the tavern, where the visitor could sex say 'my usual' and when you pay to use caught in a hole of his coat, the badges of this restaurant. Credit and discount cards have not been, but coin-like tokens very successfully complemented with real money in the sphere of local trade.
Of course, such means of payment had small denominations. It is clear that they were simple and cheap to manufacture, and was made in small numbers. But small circulation is a measure of the rarity of the collectible, and therefore the collector's value brass token can be higher, and often higher – market value coins of precious metal. Their collection of coin-like tokens You can keep in a private office Hobby Keeper.
Монетовидные жетоны
Тункель
591
Платежный жетон ресторана «Метрополь» 10 Рублей
Country
:
Российская империя
Denomination
:
10 рубль
Year
:
конец XIX в.
Mint
:
Неизвестная мастерская, Москва
Circulation
:
Material
:
Латунь
Weight
:
11,24 гр.
Diameter
:
40 мм.
Тункель
882
Платежный жетон ресторана «Яр» 10 Копеек
Country
:
Российская империя
Denomination
:
10 копейка
Year
:
конец XIX в.
Mint
:
Неизвестная мастерская, Москва
Circulation
:
Material
:
Медно-никелевый сплав
Weight
:
2,25 гр.
Diameter
:
21 мм.
Тункель
426
Трактирная марка «Московский дворянский клуб» 1883 г. 50 Копеек
Country
:
Российская империя
Denomination
:
50 копейка
Year
:
1883
Mint
:
Circulation
:
Material
:
Латунь
Weight
:
Diameter
:
29 мм.
