Showroom for african tokens

Started by Marcisharki, November 21, 2010, 05:33:25 PM

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Marcisharki

Hello,

My name is Marc and I live in Germany. I collect african coins and tokens and would like to open
a "showroom" for african tokens.

Today I will start of with Senegal. Has anybody got some tokens from this country ?

Here is my first contribution. A big token from a bakery in Senegal.
Lacoste and Cie. 

The material is aluminium and it has a diameter of 40 mm.

looking forward to seeing more  :)

best wishes

Marcisharki
A token a day keeps the Doctor away !

Afrasi

Hello Marc!

Nice to meet you on this platform, too! :)

I found only one single Senegalese Token in my collection:

africancoins

#2
Here is the one piece I have got from Senegal.

There are two others on my page at...

http://www.wbcc.fsnet.co.uk/aftsen.htm

Those pieces are not mine - the images were kindly volunteered.

Any others ?

Thanks Mr Paul Baker

Marcisharki

Hello Paul,


nice to find you here ! I have read several articles of yours, including one about SAL.. I have got quite a few from Cape Verde
and if you want, I could present them to this forum ;)

Anyway, here is a further token from Senegal, the 10 ct. (similar to the token from Afrasi) from Dakar.

best regards from Germany

Marc
A token a day keeps the Doctor away !

Marcisharki

.......and the 25 & 50 ct. from the same series :)

best regards

Marc
A token a day keeps the Doctor away !

Figleaf

The tokens from Sénégal are catalogued by Elie, who counts 19 types and three "essais". Like all French colonial tokens except those from Algeria and Tunisia, they are very hard to find, but best chased in the Paris area (be prepared for price shock).

I think the ship on the Rufisque and Dakar tokens is a fisherman (steam cutter).

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

Harald

another nice pair from Senegal, or to be exact from Casamance (the portion that lies south of the Gambia and is culturally closer to Guinea-Bissau than to the north)

cheers
--
Harald
http://www.liganda.ch (monetary history & numismatic linguistics)

Figleaf

Looking through Elie, I found that the 7th RTS (regiment of Senegalese skirmishers) issued military tokens around 1920. Other regiments, stationed in France, issued tokens there, while identifying themselves as Senegalese.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

Afrasi

If Krause & Co see it the right way (Don't even think of believing this!) there is a second one in my collection. But this one belongs clearly to Mali, the former French Sudan.

Figleaf

I can see where KM got the idea, but you are right to note that Kayes is in Mali today. The name Upper Senegal for what is now Mali existed only from 1904 to 1920. This is another one for the "help KM" project...

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

Marcisharki

Well, what a nice start !! I`ve never seen so many tokens from Senegal on one page  :) 

After Afrasi has moved on to Mali (I think that this is the only token series from this country ::) ), I will move to
the right - to the former french colony Mauretania. Here is a token from the "Société Internationale de la Grande
Pêche (SIGP) -a fish company in St.Etienne - founded in 1920 (Lecompte n°5, p. 524). 

The token is made out of brass

best regards

Marcisharki
A token a day keeps the Doctor away !

Marcisharki

Thanks for the Infos ! ;)

Here are the scans....

best wishes

Marc
A token a day keeps the Doctor away !

Afrasi

There are some more tokens of Mali, but they are really scarce.

Your piece of the S.I.G.P. is a better one than mine - as always ...  :'(

Do you know about the meaning of the counterstamp "V"


Marcisharki

Good evening,

I am not sure what the "V" means, but as Mauretanie was a french colony I was wondering
if the "V" comes from the word "Valider" which means devaluate/cancel (entwerten) - who knows ! ???

Once again I would like to move on further to the right, over the water, to an island group called Cape Verde.

Capo Verde, as the portuguese call it - is a group of 10 small islands located in the central Atlantic ocean
about 570 km off the coast of Western Africa. One of the islands is called SAL and has extensive salt flats.

The  company "Salin de Cap Vert" was grounded in 1919 in Bordeaux and had its production site in Pedra de Lume
on the island of Sal. In the peak times the company produced up to 20.000  salt tons p.a. from which about
80 % were exported. About 120 people worked in the production centre.

As there was a shortage of money, the company minted their own coinage/tokens. They were used to pay
the workers and with these tokens the workers could buy food and other stuff in the shops on the island.

Here are two examples of the tokens which were used on the island of Sal...

best wishes

Marcisharki
A token a day keeps the Doctor away !

Figleaf

Remarkable that the S.A.L. token is in French.

On the SIGP token: Validé would be gültig erklärt or validiert in German. There are some examples of homeland French tokens that are all counterstamped. My best guess is that the issuers were afraid of counterfeits, which would explain V = validé quite nicely.

BTW, I have posted my South African tokens on the forum. Look on pages 6 and 7 of this board.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.