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The E-Sylum: Volume 23, Number 40, October 4, 2020, Article 34

FEATURED WEB PAGE: CHILEAN NITRATE TOKENS

This week's Featured Web Page illustrates various forms of Chilean Nitrate Tokens.

Between 1860 and 1920 the use of tokens to pay wages to the workers of the tasks nitrate was common in all of them. A wide varieties of chips in metal: brass, aluminum, copper, lead, nickel. Also there Ebonite and cardboard. There were more than 300 offices nitrate in the former provinces of Tarapaca and Antofagasta.

Chilean Nitrate Token cardboard

www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/57127-token-nitrate-of-chile



Wayne Homren, Editor

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