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Maison Leonidas 1 F token Monnaie de Necessite jeton – Belgium, Gent Gand Chocolate

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Maison Leonidas 1 F token Monnaie de Necessite jeton – Belgium, Gent (Gand) Chocolate!

Cu-Ni 27.5mm.

Almost certainly a token from Gent dating  after Leonidas won a medal in the 1911 Brussels Exposition (exhibition) and from when he set up shop in Gent

Date:  probably just before WW1 (1914)

Leonidas Kestekides (an ethnic  Greek with Turkish birth) while visiting Belgium met and married Joanna Emelia Teerlinck and set up the chocolatier business.