Bidspirit auction | Paper Money Tokens - Palestine

Paper Money Tokens - Palestine / Eretz Israel - Lot of 35 Paper Money Tokens in Subject of Restaurants - 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: A. Margalit Bakery, Eilat Port Restaurant - 5 agorot (RRR) Restaurant of Bank Leumi Employees - 30 agorot (R) Technion Students Association, Haifa - Food, 5 pruta (not listed in catalog, very rare) Jerusalem Cooperative Restaurant Ltd. - 40 mil Chuti Snack Bar, Jerusalem - 50 pruta (not listed in catalog, very rare) *** La’Sova, Cooperative Restaurant Ltd., Tel Aviv - Lunch (not listed in catalog, very rare) Youth Village, Jerusalem - Breakfast (not listed in catalog, very rare), Lunch (not listed in catalog, very rare), Dinner (not listed in catalog, very rare) Tadiran Yizrom, Jerusalem - Beverage coupon State of Israel, Ministry of Labor, Public Works Department, Koronov Restaurant - 10 pruta (RRR), 25 pruta (RRR), 50 pruta (RRR), 100 pruta (RRR), 250 pruta (RRR), 500 pruta (RRR) Namlan Restaurant Ltd. - Small drink cup (RRR) Israel Fuel Pipelines Ltd. (Netivei Neft) - Dinner (RRR) Poalei Agudat Israel - Breakfast (RRR) Metal Industries Ltd., Srigim - 1 Israeli Lira (R) Ohel, Hebrew Theater, Tel Aviv - 50 mil, 50 mil, 100 mil, 100 M.E. (RRR) Cultural Hall Cafeteria Company, Tel Aviv - Meal (not listed in catalog, very rare) *** Vitman Ice Cream & Soda Ltd. - 1 pruta (RRR), 2 pruta (RRR), 3 pruta (RRR) Cisno, Tel Aviv - One glass of soda (not listed in catalog, very rare) *** D. Natan, Tel Aviv - Soda voucher, 3 pruta (not listed in catalog, very rare) *** Tel Aviv Municipality, Education Department - 60 M.E. (RRR), 120 M.E. (RRR), 200 M.E. (RRR) Penguin, Tel Aviv - 3 pruta (RRR) Station Kitchen - 25 pruta (not listed in catalog, very rare), 50 pruta (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.