Token - 3 Roubles - Metropol Moscow ND

Reverse

Denomination and the legend around

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
ЗАЛОГОВАЯ
3 р.
4 ОТДѢЛЕНIЯ

Translation:
Deposit
3 r
of the 4th department

Edge

Plain

Comment

There was 6 departmens of the restaurant. This tokens were used as a payment for service in the restaurant of the Metropol Hotel from 1907 to 1917, most likely as a deposit by guests, but there is a version that these tokens were used to pay a waiter with a kitchen in order to combat fraud when serving guests.