The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 4, January 26, 2003, Article 16

JETON, ZHETON, GETTONE

  In response to Paul Withers' note on "the Italian Telephone
  Token which bears the inscription "Gettone",  Martin Purdy
  writes: "This is probably also a good example of a "false friend":
  "gettone" is the standard Italian word for a token or a counter,
  not (or not necessarily) a jeton per se.   The word has spread
  to other countries and cultures with the meaning "token", too:
  just today I saw a Russian 1975 mint set that had, on the case,
  the words "Leningrad mint's [sic] token" in English; the parallel
  Russian text used the word "Zheton", quite clearly derived
  from French "jeton", for "token"."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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