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Message:: [QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 2819164, member: 80804"]Out of an irrational fear that "satanists" might contrive to hide a piece of the communion host (bread) and smuggle it out of the church for use in the "unholy", satanic rituals, communion tokens were distributed to those who could be trusted not to be witches or warlocks - after all, they were still burning or hanging poverty-stricken and marginalized men and women as witches in the hinterlands in the mid 18th century.While it might well be a Scottish communion token, the other thing I thought of when I saw it was a plantation token.  This is somewhat like the colonial enclave coinages of imperialist European corporations - created for use within a relatively small community - and to serve as a private fiat money rather than allowing the "peasants" to have real, precious metal coins they might spend outside the confines of the economic area. This is also somewhat like the corporate token coinages that were common in coal-mining "towns" which were entities wholly-owned by the corporate interests.  Workers were paid in company money which was only good to spend at the company store, etc.[/QUOTE]