Egyptian tokens Suez canal

[Figleaf]

This series is probably more expensive than any post-revolutionary series of French coins. France has its own pantheon of heroes, wonderfully free of entertainers and sportsmen and De Lesseps scores well on the French hero scale. That may explain the extraordinary interest for these tokens.

Peter

[malj1]

It is 'the french Egypt connection' - one other Egyptian token that I have been watching, 'Egypt Lipton's Oriental Tea Rooms Cairo 1/2' just made £124.88, a little more than I was prepared to pay. Most of these Egyptian tokens are highly priced with fierce bidding from several bidders.

[Henk]

I can think of one instance that comes close: some duit pieces of te Netherlands East Indies with the unexplained denomination 5-1/16...

Peter

This indicates that 5 pieces are equal to 1/16 of a Gulden. As 1 Gulden was equal to 20 Stuivers and 1 Stuiver equalst 4 Duiten (in the east indies), this piece equals 1/5 x 1/16 = 1/80 gulden or 1 Duit. There are also pieces with the denomination expressed as 5 - 1/32, these are half duiten