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 Posted 01/08/2009  03:30 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Mr Finger to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I got these coin copies in a bag of tokens and medals that I purchased,but I'm not sure of what they are copies of...maybe you fellas can identify them

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 Posted 01/08/2009  04:47 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Pic 1: They look like Teutonic Order of Knights coins, like this one - they're classed as "German States", though most of their territory was in what is now Poland and the Baltic States. They look much neater and less crude than real Teutonic Order coins.

Pic 2: the pic's a bit too fuzzy to tell; it looks kind of like the Lion of Rhegion, as seen on their coins.

Pic 3: A bit of Googling the text found this reference, right down the bottom of the page, where it's attributed to the Society of Creative Anachronism. Apparently, it's a complete fantasy, not a copy of any ancient or mediaeval coin.

Pic 4: Another fantasy piece. This one purports to be a gold ducat issued by Juraj Janosik, a notorious outlaw from central Europe. This site calls him the "Slovak Robin Hood". Wikipedia calls Robin Hood an "English Juraj Janosik"! 1713 was the year Janosik was executed. http://cgi.ebay.com/MEDAL-JANOSIKOV...82_W0QQitemZ270325910645QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090105?IMSfp=TL090105122007r32028see quite a lot of them on this forum.
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Speaking of that replica tetradrachm - I sent mine to school this morning with my daughter. They are studying ancient Greece and I know her teacher will get a kick out of it. I made sure "REPLICA" is in big bold letters on the flip label
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