Communion token

A communion token with the word ADMISSIBLE, used by the Huguenot refugee community in Berlin

A communion token is a metal token issued to members of Reformed churches in order to provide them entrance to the Lord's Supper. There were many types issued in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries, but they were largely superseded by communion cards.[1]

  1. ^ Brook, Alexander J. S. (1908). Communion Tokens of the Established Church of Scotland: Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Edinburgh: Neill & Co. p. 6.

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