ID this one please

CollectorBob · April 5, 2008 10:04AM

A German token? Any ideas?

svessien · April 5, 2008 10:07AM

My guess is it's a token granting you a Sunday special at Cornelius Heyls restaurant in Worms.

satootoko · April 5, 2008 11:32PM

It's a street name.

CollectorBob · April 6, 2008 2:09AM

Wow! Thanks for that info. Could have been used as a "neighborhood token" for that area?

ormandh · April 6, 2008 2:09AM

I like it. -Dan

satootoko · April 6, 2008 4:16AM

"Tafel-marke" translates (per Babelfish) as "Board Mark", and "Sonntag" is "Sunday".

A Sunday jeton from a neighborhood of a German town? And what on earth are the six-pointed stars doing on a German token which is most likely from the pre-WW II era?

goossen · April 6, 2008 6:13AM

Tafel = table, I think you could get a reserved table maybe ?

svessien · April 6, 2008 6:19AM

It seems like Cornelius Heyl was a leather manufacturer in Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz.
This site mentions "Cornelius Heyl" among german emergency money 1917-23:
http://www.lot-tissimo.com/de/cmd/d/o/179.135. 610/auk/135/

Many German cooperations issued tokens and Notgeld. I've got a few stoneware coins from that era, like this one:

ASUtodd · April 6, 2008 6:26AM

<< <i>It's a street name. >>

As stated, Cornelius Heyl is a street in Worms, Germany. So that part is figured out. The back does translate to Table Mark Sunday. Other than that I have no clue. I tried to look up the address of 1 Cornelius Heyl Street but got no busines or historical significance. Here is the mapquest for it
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Todd

CollectorBob · April 6, 2008 9:54AM

I am impressed! Thanks everyone. What a wealth of knowledge on this forum and I'm loving all the history.

ID this one please

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