Have a nice weekend colleagues.
You have opened up a problem that does not have the same attitude worldwide ( he is not the only one ).
Wikipedia says something, encyclopedia of numismatics something else, and something else is practiced on ,, numista ,,. I have my own experience with this-I know the issuing authority of the coin, modern imitation of a non-existent coin-token from a once existing country. And it is an exonumy from an unknown land.
https://wikijii.com/wiki/Exonumia
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token
My book ,, Encyclopedia of Numismatics ,,:
Token: Description of the token as the means of payment that was,a voucher of monetary value ( payable to the consignee in the goods) issued by private persons at a time of lack of funds of the 17th-18th centuries, copper or bronze money stamp.Smaller values.
Exonumie:
just the first sentence-Collecting numismatic items ( žeton, medals, tokens) which resemble coins or banknotes, however, which are not official statutory payment means. Also study and anatomical variants of coins.
So our position is not completely unified, not even the compiler understands the difference between a žeton and a token-and it is written in the encyclopedia.
This opinion is closest to my idea and I agree, but I would like to spice it up and declare it to the numist so that there is no doubt for us:
,, yvon,,
,, In my opinion, a token is a coin mend for payment of specific services or goods, not nescesarely issued by a goverment.
Exonumia are any type of numismatic items NOT ment for payment of any sort, but rather for decoration, remembering
or fund-raising.,,
Ahoj Ivan