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The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 38, September 23, 2018, Article 13

ICELANDIC TOKEN PHOTOS ONLINE

Yosef Sa'ar of Elat on the Red Sea provides this follow-up from our earlier article on the National Numismatic Collection of Iceland. Thanks. -Editor

Thanks to an article in The E-Sylum, I learned of the existence of a National Numismatic Collection in Iceland. Despite the fact that many, many tokens are known from other Scandinavian countries, I had never heard or seen a single token from Iceland! I visited for a few days last month and still couldn't find any tokens of any type. A rare bird.

After an email to the Iceland Central Bank and National Museum Numismatic Collection, I am happy to forward the following valuable information.

The museum does have a large collection of Icelandic tokens.

We are currently putting the collection online. Unfortunately the text is not in English but you should be able to use google translate to get you going.

Here are the merchant tokens http://www.sarpur.is/Syning.aspx?ID=633

And here are what is called the bread tokens http://www.sarpur.is/Syning.aspx?ID=634

If you follow this page you would be able to see the rest of the tokens when we put them online.

All the best

Sigurður Helgi Pálmason
Safnvörður | Numismatist

That's great to see. Museums everywhere are getting on the digital bus. Here are a couple tokens that caught my eye. Follow the above links to see the rest that have been imaged so far. -Editor

Iceland token 2 obverse Iceland token 2 reverse

Iceland token 1 obverse Iceland token 1 reverse

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
THE NUMISMATIC MUSEUM OF ICELAND (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n36a19.html)

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