buy or trade plantation coins

[Rudi Smits]

buy or trade plantation money with roman coins, any info please pm

[JeffH]

What is "Plantation money"?
Google couldn't help me.

Jeff

[Rudi Smits]

What is "Plantation money"?
Google couldn't help me.

Jeff

Plantation money, or tokens, were used to pay the plantation workers, mostly on Indonesia... Every plantation had it's own money, so the workers could only trade it for food and other stuff in the plantation owner's stores... That way he had in fact working people for him for free... Economics ;-)

[Australian coin]

o I never knew that, will have to look it up later

[Rudi Smits]

it is an interesting piece of history. not that many collectors are after plantation tokens, as it is pretty rare. there is an excellent website on the topic though, unfortunately for u part in dutch (the dutch ran those plantations back then, bcoz indonesia was one of their colonies... http://www.plantagegeld.nl/index.php?paginaid=14

[robbiegal]

interesting

I thought of the cocos islands money when I first saw this heading

I collect some of the workhouse tokens from England
similar sort of concept