Sorry I can’t get clearer pictures of this small (12mm) and very thin coin. One side seems to feature a fancy crown (or sailing ship??) and partial legend VLTRA. The other side’s legend looks like HABERT REG (not sure if there could be a letter before the H) around a fancy A in a dotted circle. I’d be very grateful for any suggestions to point me towards a proper attribution. Thanks!
I see your interest is piqued. While I'll never turn away a currency coin, for me nothing quite tingles the spine as a little known jeton.
And they are ALL pretty much little known. And even better, are relatively inexpensive.
Basically counters were used like an abacus for tallying figures when accounting was still kept in Roman numerals. Rows were decimal in that they were 1's, 10's, 100's, etc. The smaller counters were halves. With the introduction of Arabic numerals, the use gradually declined.
I also have a small one (13mm) very similar to yours.
This was made by J.C. Gerner and is very similar to N#104708 but not quite the same.
This is the 1850's and very late in a tradition that began in 15th century. From here, counters became gaming tokens.
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