Tag: Industry
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James Burness & Sons Coaling Station, St Lucia
A coal token from a tiny Caribbean nation St Lucia St Lucia is a small island nation in the Caribbean, just north of St Vincent & the Grenadines and south of Martinique. It is part of the chain of islands which runs from Venezuela in South America, through Trinidad & Tobago through to Cuba. Saint…
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1970 Brazil 50 Centavos
A nice industrial scene from a country with a large shipping industry 200th Coin! We interrupt this coin post to thank you for reading through TWO-HUNDRED posts about coins! I hope you’ve learnt as much reading them as I learnt writing them, and enjoyed it too. Today’s 200th coin is actually a special one, as…
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1950 East Germany 50 Pfennig
An evocative industrious scene in a Socialist Democracy Deutsche Demokratische Republik The Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), or English German Democratic Republic (GDR), also called East Germany. This was a socialist nation, formed in 1949 after the division of Germany. After WWII, the occupying allied forces and Soviet Union didn’t originally intend to partition Germany into…
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One Pint, Upper Hutt New Zealand
A token for a pint of milk from a country which relies on dairies. This is my entry for Day 14, “N” of the Blogging from A-Z April Challenge!N = New Zealand. (View of a farm from the NZ Pocket Guide website on seasonal work in New Zealand) New Zealand is a nation founded on farming,…
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D Napier & Son check
A check from an interesting early auto maker Acton Vale is a district in London’s west. Described as “Motor town” in the 1920s, it had one of the largest concentrations of industry south of Birmingham. In 1932, 5,400 people, or 80% of the workers in the district, were employed in the motor industry. One of…
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Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad check, USA
From Wikipedia, the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company existed from 1852 – 1952. It was also known as TCI, and the Tennessee Company. TCI was a major American steel manufacturer with interests in coal and iron ore mining and railroad operations. This is a tool check, from T.C.I. Coke. A tool check is a…