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Touch Not Taste Token (Id: 19th Century Temperance Medal)

 
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 Posted 03/24/2023  1:16 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Caddis to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
This is pretty crude token that is around 40 mm. Peace on earth front and circling the rim are the worlds touch not taste not handle. I'm thinking it's a religious token of some kind. Has anyone seen this token around?




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 Posted 03/24/2023  3:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Hondo Boguss to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Caddis, it definitely is a religious token or medal.
Colossians 2:21: "Touch not; taste not; handle not;"
Unfortunately that is all that I can add.
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 Posted 03/24/2023  7:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@hondo, that specific quite from the Bible seems to have been used quite a bit in reference to alcohol. I wonder if this is a medal from the temperance movement.

@cadd, can you please add the weight? I wondering if this is made from lead.

Added: see this link for some temperance medals with similar designs, at least on one side:

http://rlovettsr.blogspot.com/p/was...-medals.html


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Spence, thanks for the link! The reverse of Caddis's medal is very similar to the ones on that temperance site.
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 Posted 03/24/2023  9:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That's fun, thanks!
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 Posted 03/24/2023  10:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'd agree, it's a Temperance medal. Probably from the mid-1800s, at the height of the movement, and probably made of "white metal" - a lead-tin alloy that was used for cheap medallions, before the invention of cheap aluminium.

Using Colossians 2:21 on a Temperance medal has to be one of the most wrenched-out-of-context Bible verses I have ever seen; the original context of Colossians chapter 2 is strongly teaching against people who go around setting legalistic rules like this.
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 Posted 03/24/2023  11:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Caddis to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for all of the information. And yes, it does appear that several of the tokens on the linked site resemble the one I posted. I did weigh and it came in at 16 grams. Thanks again.
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