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snapple88 New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 05/14/2012 5:29 pm It is a little over an inch diameter, thicker and heavier than any coin would be. The lettering almost seems random....or maybe the middle word is a name? Can someone help me identify this coin? http://i.imgur.com/NTJ5A.jpg http://i.imgur.com/oRiih.jpg Initial speculation is that it is either Masonic or Kabbalistic...as well as possibly from the followers of the messianic claimant (and eventual apostate) Shabbtai Zvi. Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16916 Posts	Posted 05/14/2012 6:31 pm Hello and welcome. I'm glad to say that we can indeed help with this piece. "Kabbalistic" is correct. The hexagram-based design on one side is one of the "pentacles" depicted in the mediaeval Kabbalistic textbook, the "Key of Solomon". It's the "second pentacle of Mars", apparently associated with healing. It's the sort of amulet you can still buy in occultist/spiritualist supply shops today. We've seen them on the forum before, and it took a while before we finally identified them. The reason even Hebrew scholars are having trouble reading the inscriptions on these objects is that the design is a copy of a copy of a copy; errors have crept into the transcriptions and it no longer says what the original pentacle says. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
snapple88 New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 05/14/2012 9:11 pm Thank you! I had indeed asked several professors (Jewish Studies/Kabbalah scholars) and they couldn't come up with anything. Thanks! Report this Post to the Staff
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