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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 3590026, member: 39&quot;]Cool piece! But just &quot;Saufgroschen&quot; please - that &quot;rln&quot; stuff would be Southern German, hehe.</p><p><br /></p><p>This <a href="https://www.geldgeschichte.de/downloads/6553/6559/6687/Das_Fenster_146.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.geldgeschichte.de/downloads/6553/6559/6687/Das_Fenster_146.pdf" rel="nofollow">exhibition</a> in 1993 showed and explained such pieces. (Text in German; these brochures were originally &quot;paper only&quot; and scanned later, hence the fairly low quality especially of the images.) Seems that the oldest Cologne wine token is from 1497. Back then the city council members were delegates of the twenty-something guilds. After each Council meeting every present member would get such a (usually copper or even lead) token, to be used in the Ratskeller as you mentioned.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were two reasons for doing that (and not simply giving out money): First, you could make the fact obvious that these coins were not a &quot;payment&quot; for the job. Second, the city could check the consumption and the payments more easily. In the second half of the 18th century, such pieces circulated like regular money ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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