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PALESTINE: Centralcasse, brass 20 para token (2.29g), ND (ca. 1880), F-VF

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Asia & Middle-East Start Price:140.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 250.00 USD
PALESTINE: Centralcasse, brass 20 para token (2.29g), ND (ca. 1880), F-VF
SOLD
200.00USD+ buyer's premium (40.00)
This item SOLD at 2025 Jan 24 @ 16:54UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT
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PALESTINE: Centralcasse, brass 20 para token (2.29g), ND (ca. 1880), Haffner-CC-13B, plow within beaded circle with CENTRALCASSE DES TEMPELS around // large central "20" with CONSUMMARKE around, plain edge; struck in Württemberg during the 1880s, F-VF, RR. The Templars were German Protestants led by Christoff Hoffman and broke away from their church, though by the 1880s much of the templar population was Jewish. In 1868, they started emigrating to Palestine. They had their own schools, church, trade, and industry. The "Centralcasse", to address a need for small change, issued tokens which circulated from about 1880-1917, by which time the settlements were largely Jewish. The tokens circulated in Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem. They were recalled after World War I and sold to metal dealers to be scrapped.