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Bas S Warwick Pillar of the Community New Zealand 526 Posts	Posted 05/31/2012 01:40 am LOTR Token Report this Post to the Staff

SilverCoinBoi Valued Member United States 458 Posts	Posted 05/31/2012 01:56 am Is it real gold? :P Report this Post to the Staff
Bas S Warwick Pillar of the Community New Zealand 526 Posts	Posted 05/31/2012 05:49 am Unfortunately not - just gold coloured Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16827 Posts	Posted 05/31/2012 09:15 am My Tolkeinish is a bit rusty, but with the help of a handy translator table, I read the legend as "+EARTH+ THE LORD OF THE KAKHES", on the assumption that the inscriber has used an alternate pronunciation of the rune used for "H", and is apparently unaware that English digraphs ought to be represented by one rune, rather than two ("Earth" should properly be written with three runes, ERTh, rather than five). Dwarf-runes don't have a letter "C", so "Kakhes" is their attempt at writing "caches" - the piece is a geocaching target coin, as is also evidenced by the g-and-plus-sign geocaching symbol on either side of EARTH. Doing a Google Image search for the exact phrase "Lord of the Caches" reveals these ring-coins also come in "AIR", "FIRE" and "WATER" varieties, with the element-word enamelled in its appropriate colour. 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
tmaring Valued Member United States 88 Posts	Posted 05/31/2012 09:43 am Here's a couple more for the Tolkien fans: This one is silver, about half-dollar size. And this is solid copper, and VERY thick, weighs 36 grams. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16827 Posts	Posted 05/31/2012 10:07 am I have one of the "Erebor" copper pieces - though not quite as thick as that one. 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
tmaring Valued Member United States 88 Posts	Posted 05/31/2012 2:34 pm Ah... you must have the "type 1" Axe of Thrain which was broadstruck and had an almost ludicrously high-relief boss on the axe. They don't stack well at all! I later made new dies, used a much heavier blank, and struck them in a collar with a strong rim. Type 2 with smooth edge (as shown above) and there was a type 3 with a reeded edge. I was trying to get enough rim for a stackable coin, but even though I reduced the height of the central boss on the axe, it STILL was too high to stack. Below is the type 1 broadstruck version. And below that is the single unique example struck in pure gold, overstruck on a Canadian 1 oz maple leaf. Note the "fin" at the rim... the force required to get the design to strike all the way up in the middle was large enough to force some metal into the narrow space betwween the die and the collar. Report this Post to the Staff
MadMortician Valued Member United States 397 Posts	Posted 05/31/2012 3:53 pm The one with the horse kind of looks like the token here: https://goccf.com/t/120287 Of course there are differences, but when I saw the image in this thread, it sparked the memory of the thread. =) Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16827 Posts	Posted 05/31/2012 6:01 pm Yep, that's the one. I didn't know it was a Shire Post coin, though; I was wondering who issued it. Quote: Ah... you must have the "type 1" Axe of Thrain which was broadstruck and had an almost ludicrously high-relief boss on the axe. They don't stack well at all! No, they don't stack well, nor fit in a 2x2 easily... but you have to admit, they make great pub spinners. 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
tmaring Valued Member United States 88 Posts	Posted 05/31/2012 9:15 pm Aye that they do! And the type 2s do it even better, they're heavier and more nicely balanced, they spin for a long time. Spin the axe is a kind of a dwarve's version of spin the bottle. Report this Post to the Staff
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