20 Centavos The Colorado Nitrate Company - Oficina Carmen Bajo
Features
| Location |
Chile
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Trade tokens › Work encampment, mine and wage tokens |
| Years | 1885-1919 |
| Value | 20 Centavos (0.20) |
| Currency | Peso (1835-1959) |
| Composition | Bakelite (Ebonite) |
| Weight | 2.1 g |
| Diameter | 25 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 409321 |
| References | RulauLatin# Tpc 96 Russell Alphonse Rulau; 2000. Latin American Tokens: an Illustrated, Priced Catalog of the Unofficial Coinage of Latin America, Used in Plantation, Mine, Mill, and Dock : from 1700 to the 20th Century (2nd Edition). Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, United States. |
Obverse
No image, company name around, initials at center
Script: Latin
Lettering:
✤ THE COLORADO NITRATE CO. LTD_
C.B.
Reverse
Face value
Script: Latin
Lettering:
20 c
✤
Translation: 20 cents
Comments
This token was used as currency in Carmen Bajo, a nitrate mine located near Pozo Almonte, a little town in the middle of the desert, 55 kilometres away from Iquique, in Chile.
The name of this kind of tokens is "fichas salitreras" in Spanish, which were used inside the nitrate companies and mines. Miners and workers were paid with fichas salitreras, and they were only accepted in the stores owned by the same company.
Carmen Bajo Nitrate Mine.
Photo source: http://lavozdelapampa.cl/wp/2020/05/19/reglamento-de-oficina-salitrera-carmen-bajo/
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| ND (1885-1919) | |||||||||||||||
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