dooly Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Hi all .. going through the large collection i have just acquired i found this .. any information on it please .. the canal was not open at this date ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug2222usa Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 The Suez Canal opened in 1869, so (dated 1865) it was not current money. It may have been a meal token or something similar for canal workers (travaux = work). On the back I can read "Bon pour" which means "Good for" in French, but I can't read the bottom part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrey5 Posted July 9, 2012 Report Share Posted July 9, 2012 There were two companies involved in construction of the Suez Canal which issued tokens in 1865: Borel Lavalley and Ch.& A.Bazin. There was also a Societe Cooperative du Canal de Suez bases in Ismailia which issued tokens in 1892. In higher grades all these are pretty scarce. Here are a few samples from my collection: Egypt-Suez-1F-1865.jpg"]http://avscoins.com/Collection/viewlarge.php?id=cEG-45&cat=Egypt&file=[cEG-45]Egypt-Suez-1F-1865.jpg Egypt-Suez-1F-1865.jpg"]http://avscoins.com/Collection/viewlarge.php?id=cEG-217&cat=Egypt&file=[cEG-217]Egypt-Suez-1F-1865.jpg Egypt-(Suez)-5F-18.jpg"]http://avscoins.com/Collection/viewlarge.php?id=cEG-220&cat=Egypt&file=[cEG-220]Egypt-(Suez)-5F-18.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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