communion token

Some US and other churches also used communion tokens.

Communion tokens were also used in Scottish Episcopal churches.

Communion tokens belong to the field of exonumia.

By 1586 communion tokens were in use at the Walloon church in Amsterdam.

While mostly Scottish Protestant, some U.S. churches used communion tokens.

It was he who created the large collection of stuffed birds and animals, and put together the collection of communion tokens.

Communion tokens (given to congregation members in good standing to permit them to participate in Holy Communion)

Communion tokens were first suggested in 1560 by John Calvin and Pierre Viret in Geneva, and although the city council rejected the practice, the following year their idea was implemented in Nîmes and Le Mans.

Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Historical Society holds about 30,000 cubic feet of archival records and personal papers; about 250,000 monographs, serials, and rare books; and a museum collection that includes approximately 250 paintings and over 25,000 communion tokens.

Also known as Communion Tokens, they were generally issued initially by Scottish parishes (die stamped one-side only to show the parish) and later in USA and Canada; they were square or oblong, and were made of lead, iron or brass and measured 1/4" to 1".