Van Nelle

22mm, WM

Henke writes: Used to buy a cup of coffee, Mentioned in Kooij: KB 313.3 catalogue price: 25 cents
I found the Van Nelle web page: In 1782 Jacob van Nelle started with the blending of coffee, tea and tobacco. Nowadays the company is situated in Rotterdam. Its fully restored buildings, built between 1926 en 1930, are one of the summits in world-architecture and therefore part of the Unesco-list of monuments. In 1989 this company was taken over by Sara Lee | DE . Due to efficiency-causes the production-facilities in Rotterdam will be closed at the end of this century. The other plants of Douwe Egberts will take over production.
The web page makes no mention of tokens, but I got this token in a trade from Holland, and I have other tokens which are coffee vending tokens, so this token is probably a Van Nelle coffee vending machine token.

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