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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1408068, member: 31533&quot;]<span style="color: #000000"><font face="Verdana">from </font></span><a href="http://www.tokensociety.org.uk/topics/jettons.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tokensociety.org.uk/topics/jettons.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.tokensociety.org.uk/topics/jettons.shtml</a> :<span style="color: #000000"><font face="Verdana"></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Verdana">&quot;They never show a mark of value because, unlike tokens, jettons merely represent a value, by means of their position on a reckoning table (or cloth) also known as an abacus.&nbsp; This is not to be confused with the bead frame device still in use; although employing a similar principal.&nbsp; They were in common use before current methods of arithmetic using so-called Arabic numerals were adopted in Europe.&quot;</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Verdana">Basically, of the Lauer token makers, this one was made by Johann Lauer. There were two Johann Lauers, so it&#039;s either the grandfather or the grandson. Probably struck in Nuremburg. It is a reckoning counter, or &quot;jeton&quot; in French.&nbsp; </font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Verdana">Here&#039;s a sales listing for similar to yours (only the obverse device is oriented to the left, rather than the right, like yours) </font></span><a href="http://www.coin-gold.com/eng/ger_0002.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coin-gold.com/eng/ger_0002.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coin-gold.com/eng/ger_0002.html</a>&nbsp; and here&#039;s a translation of a polish page discussing a similar coin <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=pl&amp;u=http://www.exploracja.cyberdusk.pl/phpbb2/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D8245&amp;ei=i393T6y3KqSciQKmn-2nDg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=translate&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=3&amp;ved=0CDEQ7gEwAg&amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlauer%2Breche%2Bpfening%2Bvenus%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1113%26bih%3D503%26prmd%3Dimvnso" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=pl&amp;u=http://www.exploracja.cyberdusk.pl/phpbb2/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D8245&amp;ei=i393T6y3KqSciQKmn-2nDg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=translate&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=3&amp;ved=0CDEQ7gEwAg&amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlauer%2Breche%2Bpfening%2Bvenus%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1113%26bih%3D503%26prmd%3Dimvnso" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=pl&amp;u=http://www.exploracja.cyberdusk.pl/phpbb2/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D8245&amp;ei=i393T6y3KqSciQKmn-2nDg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=translate&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=3&amp;ved=0CDEQ7gEwAg&amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlauer%2Breche%2Bpfening%2Bvenus%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1113%26bih%3D503%26prmd%3Dimvnso</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck to you with your jeton. Again, from the info I have found, two of the lauers had the same name and both produced reche pfenings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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