Netherlands Zinc 1861 Bread Token Broodpenning Amsterdam 28 mm (18 398)

Netherlands 

Zinc 1861 Bread Token Broodpenning Amsterdam 

28 mm

Obverse: Table with 2 loaves

Lettering: Broodpenning der Herv. Diakonie te Amsterdam - 1861

Translation: Bread-token from the Reformed Diakonie in Amsterdam

Reverse: Woman with reaching hand in the company of a sheep

Lettering: Vergenoegd en Dankbaar

Translation: Pleased and Grateful

A bread token is a token issued by a charity to the less fortunate that was exchangeable for food. These tokens were used since the end of the Middle Ages, but mainly in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Initially they were published by charitable religious institutions. Bread tokens were issued in many European countries, but especially in industrialized areas in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom. This was due to the great poverty among factory workers at the time and the socialism that was emerging at the time. Bread tokens have fallen out of use due to improved legislation in the field of social security.

REF 18 398

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