1 Saluut - Royal Naval Institute

The Koninklijk Instituut voor de Marine, founded in 1829 at Den Helder, has issued tokens and medals tied to institutional life rather than state monetary authority. This brass piece almost certainly functioned as a canteen or mess token — the "saluut" denomination places it firmly in that tradition of closed-economy scrip used within Dutch naval establishments, where controlling alcohol and food distribution through non-currency tokens was standard administrative practice well into the late twentieth century.