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Voting tokens

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Tokens used to insure anonymous voting in Jewish charitable society elections.

Translations

  • Hebrew
  • GermanWahl-Token
  • RussianЖетоны для голосования
  • FrenchJetons de vote
  • DutchStempenningen
  • ItalianGettoni per il voto
  • CzechHlasovací žetony
  • Hungarian
  • SpanishFichas de voto
  • GreekΚέρματα για τις εκλογές
  • PolishŻetony do głosowania
  • Arabic
  • Yiddish
  • Ladino

Bibliography

Kirschner, Bruno. Judaica in Nummis. Monatschrift fuer Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums 83 (1939) 590-605.

Kisch, Bruno. Jewish Community Tokens, a Neglected Field in Jewish Numismatics. Historia Judaica 13 (1953), 167-182, 4 plates.

Wolf, Albert. Juedische Medaillen. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft fuer juedische Volkskunde XIII (1904) 51-62, 9 plates.

Image information

Gelderland, Netherlands, ca. 1790. Copper coin engraved with Aramaic word לאו (no), Collection and photo: Ira Rezak.

Germany, 18th Century. Copper coin engraved on one side with Aramaicהן  (yes). Collection and photo: Ira Rezak.

Germany, 18th Century, Copper coin engraved on one side with Aramaic הן(yes) and on the other ר’צ, possibly an abbreviation of רודף צדקה (“pursuer of charity”) a quotation from Proverbs 21:21 and likely the name of a charitable organization. Collection and photo: Ira Rezak.

Eisenstadt, Austria, 18th century. Zinc marked in Aramaic הן (yes), the other blank (no). Collection and photo: Ira Rezak.

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