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Counters  

Definition

  • Inscribed tokens used for reckoning accounts since the 13th c.; often copies of contemporary coins; used after the 16th c. mainly as souvenir pieces; also, tokens, often small round disks, that replace coins during gaming [AAT 94, alt.]

Entry terms

  • CHIPS, GAMING COUNTERS
  • COINS, COUNTING
  • COUNTING COINS
  • GAMBLING CHIPS
  • Gaming counters
  • Jettons, counters
  • Reckoning counters
  • Tokens, counters

Notation

  • 115519

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-C0TDVWSD-0

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