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Bread Token with two loaves Diaconie d'Amsterdam 1861

Bread Token with two loaves (Diaconie d'Amsterdam 1861) - obverseBread Token with two loaves (Diaconie d'Amsterdam 1861) - reverse

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Features

Location Netherlands
Type Spiritual tokens › Religious tokens
Year 1861
Composition Zinc (Variations in silver exist)
Weight 6.2 g
Diameter 28 mm
Thickness 2 mm
Shape Round (Sometimes with a hole in the middle)
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
225208
References Dirks# 860
Jacob Dirks; 1889. Beschrijving der nederlandsche of op Nederland en Nederlanders betrekking hebbende Penningen geslagen tusschen November 1813 en November 1863 = Description of the Dutch or related coins to the Netherlands and the Dutch, minted between November 1813 and November 1863. De Erven F. Bohn, Haarlem, Netherlands.
, Kooij# BR003.1
Adrianus Johannes Kooij; 2008. Catalogus van Nederlandse betaal- en reclamepenningen = Catalogue of Dutch Payment and Advertising Tokens (3rd Edition). Mevius Numisbooks, Vriezenveen, Netherlands.

Commemorative issue

Broodpenning

Obverse

Table with 2 loaves (variations exist with 3 and 4 loaves)

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BROODPENNING DER HERV. DIAKONIE TE AMSTERDAM
1861

Unabridged legend: Broodpenning der hervormde Diakonie te Amsterdam

Translation: Bread-token from the Reformed Diakonie in Amsterdam

Reverse

Woman with reaching hand in the company of a sheep

Script: Latin

Lettering: VERGENOEGD EN DANKBAAR

Translation: Pleased and Grateful

Edge

Plain

Comments

Similar tokens present three or four loaves.

 

The yoke is a slightly curved wooden rod that, placed on the shoulders, is used to carry two burdens or two buckets, attached to each end. The term “diaconia” designates the various social commitments of Christian communities, it is the implementation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the service of the person, especially the poorest, but it is much broader than charity, it touches and founds all Christian life. The use of this term provides an opportunity to revisit the theological foundations of solidarity action and to show its spiritual dimension.

https://eglise.catholique.fr/glossaire/diaconie/

 

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.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1861 

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