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Numismat Pillar of the Community United States 1666 Posts	Posted 02/08/2011 2:10 pm I think Kurt is right. The style is very similar to British merchant farthing tokens from 1800 to 1820. Kind of like this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...3D&viewitem= or this one: http://www.coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq...ain_ct_id=94 The designs are crudely based on those of existing coins of the period. Yours may be a Swedish version from the same period as the emergency dalers. Definitely an interesting and unusual item. Edited by Numismat 02/08/2011 2:11 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Tomten Valued Member Sweden 159 Posts	Posted 02/09/2011 08:58 am Yes very similar actually! I know that the worth of tokens are very tricky.. But what would you take a guess at? Report this Post to the Staff
Numismat Pillar of the Community United States 1666 Posts	Posted 02/09/2011 1:43 pm I would not venture a guess. From what I know of Swedish tokens, the rare ones can go for serious money. And if this one is as early as we think, in this condition, would likely be worth a good chunk of change. More research is needed here! =) Report this Post to the Staff
Tomten Valued Member Sweden 159 Posts	Posted 02/13/2011 11:33 am I've found another one! On this swedish page: http://www.tonysmynt.se/polletter/s...nningar.html This is what it says in Swedish under it: Holst 144, Spelpenning, Allmän, 21 mm Lagerkrönt huvud åt höger / Mercurius stående Ett huvud som ofta påstås vara Georg Heinrich von Görtz, kanske för att frånsidan visar en av hans "gudar". Jämför gärna med nödmyntet MERCVRIVS Troligen slagen vid Avesta myntverk under första hälften av 1700-talet. Token in games. Mercurius standing, the head is said to be Georg Heinrich von Görtz, maybe because Mercurius was one of his "gods". Probably minted at Avesta during the first half of the 1700'. Report this Post to the Staff
DVCollector Bedrock of the Community United States 10045 Posts	Posted 02/13/2011 12:22 pm Tomten, that Holst 144 game token looks very close--nice research! Perhaps yours was also struck in Avesta, just with a different pair of dies? Edited by DVCollector 02/13/2011 12:23 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Tomten Valued Member Sweden 159 Posts	Posted 02/14/2011 2:04 pm I think it must've been struck in Avesta as well. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16873 Posts	Posted 02/15/2011 01:09 am Excellent work. Looks like these "spelpenningar" are the Swedish variants on the German rechenpfennigs and French jetons. 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
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