Inscribed counters or tokens used for reckoning accounts since the 13th century; often copies of contemporary coins; used after the 16th century mostly as souvenir pieces.
This term has 72 records attributed within our system.
AAT
Object name
Object category
3000191481
coins, counting
counters (tokens)
counters, reckoning
counting coins
jetons
reckoning counters
13yrs ago
Ruler:
Louis XIV (1643-1715)
(Struck in the rule of)
State:
France
Place of use:
Colmar, Paris
Ruler:
Louis XIV (1643-1715)
(Struck in the name of)
State:
France
Place of use:
Colmar, Paris
Artist:
Krauwinckel, Hans, II
Mint:
Nuremberg
Ruler:
Henry IV (1589-1610)
(Struck in the name of)
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