jetton

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  1. A piece of metal, generally silver, copper, or brass, bearing various devices and inscriptions, formerly used as a counter in card-playing, or in casting up accounts; also, an abbey-counter. Jettons came into use in the fourteenth century, and were extensively used, especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in the Netherlands, France, Germany, and other countries. They used to compute with Jettons and counters;… it is done by laying them on lines increasing in their value from the bottom, which is a line of Units; the second, or next above it, is a line of Tens; the third a line of Hundreds; the fourth of Thousands; and so on. T. Snelling, View of the Origin of Jettons, p. 13. Almost every abbey struck its own jettons or counters, which were thin pieces of copper, commonly impressed with a pious legend, and used in casting up accounts. Chatto, Wood Engraving, p. 19.

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  1. Also jeton; from French jeton, a counter, Old French jeton, geton, a shoot, sprout, etc., from jeter, throw, cast: see jet.
 

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