jetton
/ˈdʒɛtən/
noun
- A small, flat piece of metal or plastic used as a token, especially in games, casinos, or for operating machines.
- She collected a handful of colorful jettons from the casino cashier.
- The arcade machine only accepts jettons, not regular coins.
- He placed a jetton on the table to mark his turn in the board game.
- A counter or token used in historical accounting or calculation, often on a counting board.
- The museum displayed a set of brass jettons from the 16th century.
- Medieval merchants used jettons to keep track of sums on a counting cloth.
- He learned how to use jettons for arithmetic before the invention of modern calculators.