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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1992824, member: 39&quot;]The depicted beer bottle suggests that those were used as deposit tokens. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; And a Freihafen is a free port, customs wise. Hamburg for example (where your tokens could be from) used to have a free port in the city, with its own &quot;border&quot; and checkpoints. This way ships in transit would not have to pay import duty.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those Speisehallen were nothing fancy by the way. They were <a href="http://www.hamburger-fotoarchiv.de/hamburger_bildarchiv/frames/frames_speicher_2_01162_532_schwimmkran_kaiserhoeft_dalmannkai.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hamburger-fotoarchiv.de/hamburger_bildarchiv/frames/frames_speicher_2_01162_532_schwimmkran_kaiserhoeft_dalmannkai.html" rel="nofollow">places</a> where the port/dock workers would get an inexpensive meal ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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