| Obverse - | Within a simple shield a hand grasps a branch. To either side and below, two additional branches. Two dots. |
| Reverse - | I / ATRIBUO / 1809 |
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| Size, 19 mm. | |||||
| Neumann 32027, listed in his Beschreibung der bekanntesten Kupfermünzen under "Frankfurt" along with two similar tokens, the three described as "die sogennanten Judenpfennige". | |||||
| This small token was identified by the dealer who sold it to me as a "Jewish" coin of the Frankfurt ghetto. |
| "By the way, it wasn't money Napoleon wanted from the Jews, it was men, cannon fodder. The Sanhedrin he arranged was essentially to get a religious decision that Jewish soldiers were not bound to obey the dietary laws of that people." - David Block |
| Thanks as usual to David Block for the enlightening information, both the identification and the comment above. |
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