Show Me Some Non-American Trade Tokens

Counterstamp is a bonus. Very nice!

British co-op tokens. It seems that this is what the British did for their 'local currencies'. When you spent money at a co-op, you were given a token indicating how much you spent. At the end of the year, depending on profits, your tokens could be redeemed for a certain percent of their face value.

I like the bracteate ones and have a ton of those. All of those ones are galvanized steel. There was a great deal of variety among these though, and here are some of the nicer/more diverse ones I've gotten.

Some of the tokens in the 2nd picture are market tokens. Eg 2nd row right, 4th row 2nd from right.

These tokens were issued by food wholesalers to retailers at wholesale markets. If for example, you were a greengrocer on the high street, when you bought a crate of fruit you paid a deposit to the wholesaler on the crate, refundable on return. To stop unscrupulous people stealing your empty crates and trading them in, the wholesaler handed you tokens to the value of your deposit. When you presented your empty crates to collect your deposit, you also presented the tokens.

This took a while to get here. This was apparently issued by Club De La Union in Santiago and is the first trade token I've come across that is made of nacre. There is at least one other denomination of this, a 10.

Couple of El Salvador Farm Tokens we sold last week. Not a lot of information on them:

Panama Jose Del C Mejia token good for 5 Centavos

Nice examples.

Really cool!