Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Exchange Media (hierarchy name)
5. exchange media (objects)

Narrower term/s

• monetary tokens[+]
  • store cards
  • transportation tokens
  • siege pieces [NP]
  • sales tax tokens
• nonmonetary tokens[+]
  • communion tokens
  • tesserae (exchange media)
  • wooden money
  • boy-bishop tokens
  • patakons (nonmonetary tokens)
  • alms tokens
  • christening tokens
  • funeral tokens
• semi-monetary tokens[+]
  • jettons
  • gaming counters [+]
    • poker chips
  • bread tokens
  • coppers (regalia)

Anotations

Scope note:

Designates substitutes for money that move within a limited universe, usually not in general circulation, may be exchanged for particular goods or services, and are made from hard substances whose intrinsic value is always less than the stated value.