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Help identifying dutch beer token "KANTINE TREYZ"
jmm2562
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Hello! I found a token in my collection. The only inscription on the quarter-sized aluminum (or maybe zinc) token is "KANTINE TREYZ". I believe KANTINE is dutch for canteen, so I'm guessing it's a dutch beer token. I'm unable to find any canteen/bar by the name "TREYZ". I've searched Menzel and the web to no avail. Is there another reference I should check to track down the source and perhaps more about how the token was used? I can only speculate there was a bar called Kantine Treyz and this token had yet to be labeled with a trade value. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Kantine is also German for a military or factory mess hall/canteen.
Thanks, that certainly opens the door to another possible source of the token's origin. So, maybe it was not used as a beer token at a local pub, but rather an adult refreshment token at a military mess hall.
I did find a reference to "TREYZ" brewery in Germany. Perhaps this token was used at the brewery's pub.
https://bierkrug.wiki/2025/03/17/treyz-brau-betzingen/
Very possible.
It might have been a fringe benefit given to brewery workers. That is often done in Germany. The token might have represented a drink, lunch, etc.