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A coin with one type of metal in the center with an outer ring of a different metal. Examples are the 1 and 2 Euro coins and the Canadian "toonie" two-dollar coin. blank. Also called a planchet or flan. 1. A prepared disk of metal on which the design for a coin will be stamped. [1] 2. The un-struck or flat side of a uniface coin or medal. brass
Tokens have been used for both to advertise and to facilitate commerce and may or may not have a value. Token authority Russell Rulau offers a broad definition for exonumia in his 1040 page tome, UNITED STATES TOKENS: 1700–1900 [4] but lines between categories can be fuzzy. For example, an advertising token may also be considered a medal.
Brass trade token from Fort Laramie, Dakota Territory. Most such tokens show the issuer's full name or initials. Where initials were shown, it was common practice to show three initials: the first names of husband and wife and their surname. Tokens would also normally indicate the merchant establishment, either by name or by picture.
$3.6 $3.6 PEPENOPOULOS, 2016: 2016 October 26, 2021: Unknown Unknown Bitcoin Rare Pepe sold by Sotheby's in first auction on its Metaverse platform for NFT collectors. [26] $3.4 $3.4 BAYC #8817: 2021 October 26, 2021: Unknown Unknown Ethereum Bored Ape Yacht Club collection launched in 2021 with 10,000 works. [27] $3.9 $3.3 Fidenza #313: 2021 ...
In German the word Jeton refers specifically to casino tokens. In Polish the word żeton, pronounced similarly to French jeton, refers both to tokens used in vending machines, phones etc. and to those used in casinos. The word жетон has the same use in Russian, as does the word jeton in Romanian and žetoon in Estonian. However in Hungary ...
A bulla (or clay envelope) and its contents on display at the Louvre. Uruk period (4000–3100 BC).. A bulla (Medieval Latin for "a round seal", from Classical Latin bulla, "bubble, blob"; plural bullae) is an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin), bitumen, or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication and for tamper-proofing whatever is attached to it ...
Civil War tokens are token coins that were privately minted and distributed in the United States between 1861 and 1864. They were used mainly in the Northeast and Midwest . The widespread use of the tokens was a result of the scarcity of government-issued cents during the Civil War .
The type–token distinction separates types (abstract descriptive concepts) from tokens (objects that instantiate concepts). For example, in the sentence "the bicycle is becoming more popular" the word bicycle represents the abstract concept of bicycles and this abstract concept is a type, whereas in the sentence "the bicycle is in the garage", it represents a particular object and this ...