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1/2 Piastre - Zichron Jacob
| Issuer | Zichron Jacob Colony |
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| Year | 1885 |
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| Composition | Brass |
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| Reverse script | Hebrew |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Zichron Jacob — founded in 1882 by Romanian Jewish immigrants and later supported by Baron Edmond de Rothschild — issued these brass tokens as a practical solution to chronic small-change shortages in Ottoman Palestine. The colony operated under Rothschild's administration as a near-autonomous agricultural settlement, and the token coinage functioned as internal scrip, redeemable within the colony's own commercial infrastructure. Ottoman authorities tolerated such arrangements in remote settlements where imperial coinage rarely circulated in sufficient quantity.
Fewer than a handful of institutions worldwide hold documented examples.