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Pillar of the Community
United States
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To clarify, this is not a plea for help, for I know the answer. It's just a fun exercise. When I saw it my initial reaction was - this is out of place! Here's a fragment of the coin:  I believe this is a child. I'll post the entire reverse later. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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If you don't receive a reply within what you consider a reasonable time, you could try 'baiting' us.
Post a slightly bigger piece of the puzzle each few days, until you do get some good guesses.
You never know, you could be starting a new puzzle trend for us, within the CCF!
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Valued Member
Canada
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i thought it was one of those statues from Easter island
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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If you don't receive a reply within what you consider a reasonable time, you could try 'baiting' us.  Actually, when there's no reply within a reasonable time I was ready to assume that people didn't give a rodent's behind. |
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United States
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Rest in Peace
United States
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It's obviously from a 13-koperuble issued by the GDR on the occasion of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A wistful peasant child is depicted looking at the barbed wire on the top of the wall and imagining wrapping one of her doctrine teachers in it and dropping him down a well.
This coin for some reason was issued only in limited numbers.
Okay, I really have no clue, but I didn't want you to think that I didn't give a rat's you-know-what. Actually, I care deeply. As you can tell by my summation above.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I'd say it's from whichever country that Little Red Riding Hood comes from.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
539 Posts |
yeah, not a lack of interest just a lack of any clue....
it looks like she is holding the head of something in one hand and a hammer or ax in the other...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Why don't we move this to the Contest thread? Even though there is no prize you might get more people to look and guess there.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I thought Easter Island at first glance too, but it does appear to be a girl...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
524 Posts |
That looks like a big piece of Swiss cheese to me with someone on the left about to cut a slice so I say Swiss.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2605 Posts |
The reason I didn't put it in the Contest forum is that I wasn't planning on making people actually guess. Just to give it a shot. As I mentioned above this silhouette struck me as out of place on the design. To me it looks like a(n Eastern) European peasant girl with a head scarf. Now I reveal the whole reverse of the coin:  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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svslav: You gave up on us too quickly!
Perhaps this sort of exercise could be repeated by yourself, or anyone else, in the:
'Contest, Quiz & Giveaway' part of the CCF.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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To me it looks like a(n Eastern) European peasant girl with a head scarf.
That's exactly what I thought. I had a look through some Russian and Ukraine coins, thinking it might have been from there. Way off!! Steve  |
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Australia
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Here's the whole thing, Egypt 20 piastres 1985, subject "Applied Professions".  Quote:
Perhaps this sort of exercise could be repeated by yourself, or anyone else, in the:
'Contest, Quiz & Giveaway' part of the CCF. Some time next week I'll do "Math a coin 2", and this time instead just matching reverse and obverse you'll be matching fragments of them, and a country, and a date. |
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Posted 05/10/2012 7:52 pm
Very unusual, I would swear it's from Slovak Republic. 
