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Because this website is in
Dutch I've translated the introduction page.
Welcome on the website from
Allex Kussendrager
about :
beaconleads
and
lead tokens
or lead tokens with a (temporary) payment
function.
Beaconleads:
Port-,
fire- and buoys leads; or leads relating to shipping in general.
These pieces relate to a form of taxation used to finance the conservation
of such facilities as lighthouses, buoys and coastal lights,
or to a form of toll for the various locks, bridges and other passages that
were used by the shipping in general.
Lead tokens:
including
personal and municipal arms, and pieces (méreaux) connected with the
dispensation of charity to the poor.
Some of the latter entitled the bearer to a meal, and others to supplies of
essential commodities; for example, bread, turf, wood, wine etc.
These had a certain limited exchange value, either implied or stated.
Armorial and charity tokens of the Walloon and Lutheran-Community
