Show Me Some Non-American Trade Tokens

In my quest to find ever unique and unusual things, I've taken to looking over trade tokens -- and anything similar to them. I've found all sorts of interesting things that simply do not show up in standard coinage.

Because of this, I've been visiting Richard Greever's token catalog a lot lately. They recently hit half a million entries. The thing is, over 95% of those are American. That's fine and all but that leaves foreign tokens poorly documented, and from what I've seen there are some neat ones out there.

Because it's difficult to come across them, I'd like to see if any of you can show me some. I've got a lot of different ones, I'll start with three to get the ball rolling and see if this takes off. Information, pictures, whatever is welcome.



1. Chile, mining tokens. About a century ago, mining operations in Chile issued a lot of different tokens. Many of them are made of vulcanite and are incredibly large. There are a handful out there made of metal. I recently lost out on one made of lead. As you can see in the picture, some are colored differently on their obverse and reverse.



2. Welsh, Llantrisant Mint tokens. When Britain decimalized their coins, they moved The Royal Mint to Llantrisant, Wales. It seems really strange to me that a mint would issue tokens, but they apparently did. These are among the very few tokens out there of this style (laminated paper).



3. Israel, Sommerfin tokens. Sommerfin was an Israeli cruiser that was liquidated in the 1960s. They issued tokens to get around orthodox rules that money could not be spent on Saturdays. They came in six colors. The green ones seem to be incredibly common, the red/blue/yellow ones are common, and the dark blue/white ones are scarce.

An info sheet from 1967 suggests a price of $2 for the common ones and $6 for the scarce. I've found that prices are much, much cheaper than that now especially when you adjust for inflation. (The reverses on these are blank.)