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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2102483, member: 39&quot;]Lots of sources besides eBay. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> But the token does have an interesting background. On one side you see the name of the &quot;issuing bishop&quot;, with a miter above and the date below. The other side says <i>Weldaedigheyd</i> which apparently refers to the &quot;Bureel van Weldaedigheyd&quot; (Charity Office) in the diocese. The language is Dutch, but a 200 year old version ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Back then, the city of Antwerp was part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands; today it is the capital of Flanders, Belgium. Poor people who on Sundays attended &quot;Catechism&quot; would afterwards get such a token that they could then use to buy bread. What is peculiar is that the name of the bishop does not match the year on the token: Jacob T. J. Wellens was bishop in the 1770s and 80s, and founded that charity. A while after the French rule, citizens set it up again, hence the 1823 date.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some information in Dutch is here: <a href="http://www.atmikes.be/index.php/diensten/23-penningen/30-armenpenning-antwerpen-1823" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.atmikes.be/index.php/diensten/23-penningen/30-armenpenning-antwerpen-1823" rel="nofollow">atmikes.be</a> (with image) - <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/NG-VG-16-38" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/NG-VG-16-38" rel="nofollow">rijksmuseum.nl</a> (partly English, w/o image) - <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVhDAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA86&amp;lpg=PA86&amp;dq=wellens+antwerpen+1823&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=znseydW9dB&amp;sig=9e4u68O217cf0xhaPqFtkeIGa2c&amp;hl=de&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=iRYAVeWQJcnYavLtgJAF&amp;ved=0CCkQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&amp;q=wellens%20antwerpen%201823&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVhDAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA86&amp;lpg=PA86&amp;dq=wellens+antwerpen+1823&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=znseydW9dB&amp;sig=9e4u68O217cf0xhaPqFtkeIGa2c&amp;hl=de&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=iRYAVeWQJcnYavLtgJAF&amp;ved=0CCkQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&amp;q=wellens%20antwerpen%201823&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">description</a> in an old book.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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