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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 99177, member: 283&quot;]To find some J D&#039;arc jetons on Delcampe do a search using the keyword arc and under `coins&#039;. It turns up sixteen or so items one of which is the item you originally highlighted.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t want to speak for the original poster you are trying to help out but a coin is usually defined along the lines of being issued by a recognised national government as a legal tender piece withing the boundaries of the nation issuing it. Normally it will carry a denomination on it. A US quarter dollar for example is a coin. It expresses the country authorising it, the value, and it is legal to use in commerce anywhere within the territorial limits of the US.</p><p><br /></p><p>The items (jetons/medalets) you have been highlighting do not fit the generally accepted definition of a coin. That having been said, many earlier silver and copper jetons were indeed used in exchange as token coinage. This is because the value of coins was based upon the value of the metal content. This fact still did not make them `legal tender&#039;. That is, if someone was willing to accept them in exchange for goods etcetera then fine, but there was no requirement to do so. </p><p><br /></p><p>The ones highlighted are not of the right age to have seen any life in commerce.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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