Bidspirit auction | Paper Money Tokens - Palestine

Paper Money Tokens - Palestine / Eretz Israel - Lot of 63 Paper Money Tokens in Subject of Business Companies - The items are graded for rarity according to the catalog “Catalog of Paper Payments Tokens in Israel” by Alexander Golberg. R - 6 to 10 known pieces RR - 3 to 5 known pieces RRR - 1 to 2 known pieces Item details: Friedman, Or Yehuda - 1 kg oil (R) Be’er Sheva Flour Mill Ltd. - Special flour, 18 kg (RRR) Friedman Dairy Factory - (not listed in catalog, very rare) Everything for Youth, Bnei Brak - Value 10 (RRR), Value 100 (RRR), Value 500 (RRR) Consumer Cooperative Voucher - 100 Lira (each coupon 25 Lira) (RRR) D. Tannenbaum, Komat Factory, Herzliya - 30 M.E., 50 M.E., 100 M.E. Nah Immerman Bakery, Hebron - 10 Egyptian grush Haifa Cooling Center Ltd. - 20 ice blocks (RR) Ora Theatres & Amphitheater Ltd., Haifa - 25 pruta (RRR) Yosef Faraj Mizrahi, Tiberias - One tin of kerosene, 12 mil Edison Cinema Box Office, Jerusalem - 50 mil (RRR) Berman Bakery, Jerusalem - One cake (RRR) Hadassah University Hospital Rothschild, Jerusalem - Breakfast / dinner meal coupon (RRR) General Federation of Hebrew Workers in Eretz Israel (Histadrut) - 50 M.E. (RRR) Timinko Grocery, Jerusalem - 1/3 ice (RRR), 1/4 ice (RR), 1/4 ice (RR) Chaim Lipkin, Jerusalem - One can of water (RR) Jerusalem Workers Council - One cup of tea (RRR) Mishan, Jerusalem - Half a liter of milk (RRR) Mishan, Tel Aviv - 15 agorot (not listed in catalog, very rare), 50 agorot (not listed in catalog, very rare), 1 Lira (not listed in catalog, very rare) Ice Syndicate, Jerusalem - 12 kg ice (RRR) Frumin Biscuit Factory, Jerusalem - 5 mil 1932 (RR) Pinchas Ravitz, Jerusalem - 1 bottle of milk (RR), 1 bottle of milk (RR) Lewis Catering Services, Lod Airport (Ben-Gurion Airport) - 10 L.I. (RR), 20 L.I. (RR), 40 L.I. (RR) Moshav Nir Israel, Agricultural Tractor Stations Ltd. - 50 agorot (R) S. Mizrahi - 1 bottle of milk (RRR) Jewish Agency for Israel, Finance Department - One meal, 15 agorot (R), 25 agorot (R) Am Oved Ltd. - 100 pruta Safed Workers Council, National Workers Federation, Safed - 5 Lira (RR) Agricultural Ice Factory Ltd., Rishon Lezion - 1/2 ice block (not listed in catalog, very rare) Rosenboim Pension, Rishon Lezion - 10 mil (not listed in catalog, very rare), 25 mil (not listed in catalog, very rare), 35 mil (not listed in catalog, very rare), 40 mil (not listed in catalog, very rare) Asis, Ramat Gan - Asis coupon, 5 mil (RRR) Shayshar Discount Coupon - 30 agorot, 30 agorot, 60 agorot, 60 agorot, 60 agorot Esto Ice Cream, Tel Aviv - 3 pruta (RRR) Bendo Automatic Laundry Ltd., Tel Aviv - 1500 pruta (RRR) Food Supervisor, Tel Aviv District - One ice block (RR) Tena Ltd., Tel Aviv - 900 pruta (RRR) Mercantile Bank of Israel Ltd., Tel Aviv - 20 agorot (RRR) Pleis Embroidery, A. Pomocznik, Tel Aviv - 5 M.E. (RRR), 10 M.E. (RRR) Golan Mordechai - Valid for one bottle of milk (not listed in catalog, very rare) Throughout the periods - from the Ottoman rule, through the British Mandate, and up to the early years of the State of Israel - a wide variety of means of payment developed in the Land of Israel, many of which served as substitutes for actual money. Due to a chronic shortage of small change, and in order to facilitate trade and daily transactions, various institutions, cooperatives, factories, and private businesses issued value tokens, payment vouchers, deposit certificates, promissory notes, and trade coupons, which functioned in practice as alternative currency. These forms of payment were often redeemable for cash or goods and services - sometimes only within a specific community or organization - and became an essential part of the evolving local economy. The use of such instruments reflected the spirit of initiative and economic independence that characterized the Jewish community in Palestine, and the aspiration to establish a self-sustained Hebrew financial system even before the birth of the State of Israel and its national currency.