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Picadilly Bucharest Beer Tokens
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21.5 mm, 2.23 g, brass, with central hole
PICADILLY · BUCURESTI · S·A·R
BUN · PENTRU · 1 TAP meaning GOOD FOR 1 BOCK (meaning billy-goat, Romanian for 0.3 liter draft, about half pint)

According to [1], Picadilly S.A.R. was in Bucharest, on Elisabeta Blvd no 2. In [2] the Picadilly restaurant appears as operating at Cercul Militar. This notice is for the year 1928.

The "țap" is a measure of beer having 300 ml (about half pint). The name seems to come from the German language, where "bockbier" ("bock" - buck in English - means a male animal, and also a billy-goat) is a kind of stronger than usual beer, which for this reason is drunk in quantities smaller than a "halbă" of 500 ml - a little less than a pint. Of course, in the Romanian language "halbă" is also a word of German origin, derived from "Halbe" meaning half. It is a measure of half a liter of beer.


References

Bibliografie

1. Schäffer E., România. Jetoane, semne valorice și mărci, Guttenbrun [old German name of Zăbrani village in Arad county], 2012.

2. * * * (Oficiul Universitar din București), Călăuza studentului. Vademecum academicum 1928-1929, Editura "Cartea Românească" București, 1928.


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