Token - IUV Vrhnika

Token - IUV (Vrhnika) - obverseToken - IUV (Vrhnika) - reverse

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Features

Location Slovenia
Period Republic (1991-date)
Type Unclassified exonumia › Miscellaneous token
Composition Brass
Weight 5.2 g
Diameter 22.8 mm
Thickness 1.6 mm
Shape Round
Number
N#
154437
References Mandic# SL172
Ranko Mandić; 2012. Tokens of the Countries of Former Yugoslavia : Tokens Issued in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, with Apendix Fantasy Euro Coins (Patterns) Issued in the Name of the Countries of Former Yugoslavia. Masta Trade, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Obverse

Script: Latin

Lettering: IUV

Reverse

Blank.

Edge

Plain

Comments

IUV stands for Industrija usnja Vrhnika, an ex Slovenian company which was stationed in the city of Vrhnika. Up to the beginning of the 21st century city of Vrhnika was considered as the center of the Slovenian leather industry. In 2008, the leather industry of Vrhnika (IUV), with more than 600 employees, remained the largest European leather factory. Construction of company began in 1946 and was closed in 2008:
http://www.rtvslo.si/gospodarstvo/industrija-usnja-vrhnika-v-stecaju/95618

https://www.kamra.si/digitalne-zbirke/item/nekoc-je-bila-industrija-usnja-vrhnika.html

Token was probably used in company's cafeteria.

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