Tokens: Any advice on these French tokens?

Anyone know anything about these? French tokens struck in Aluminium from the 1920s. Are they scarce? Do they have much value? I have not come across any of these before and I have no books on French tokens. Scale at the bottom is in tenths of an inch.

 

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These are french emergency money (Monnaies Necessite, in German - Notgeld) and typically issued locally when for a variety of reasons paper money and coinage could not be made available across the whole country.

CGB has a variety for sale at http://www.cgb.fr/boutique,necessite.html including a 10c version of your coin from Toulouse at http://www.cgb.fr/union-latine-comite-du-sud-ouest-10-centimes,fnc_238946,a.html

 

That's great - thanks! They came in a job lot of foreign bits that I will be selling on!

 

that ship on the octagon is cool looking.

 

Bayonne has a history of issuing those ship jetons. See here: a Bayonne Chamber of Commerce token from 1758.

Christian

 

I see the ocotagon ship 1 on eBay now. link: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/token-fra...-commerce-de-bayonne-jeton-1920-/282005823054
this might help ?

 

found another 1 on Ebay that looks like your first 1 but its a 10 centimes token, jeton .
link: not sure if this helps you ? link: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/France-No...646350?hash=item236cd35c0e:g:wzQAAOSwBnVW-4WT

 

might try looking here too.... link: http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces17703.html