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 Posted 10/03/2012  4:05 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Rlepps to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
What is this coin/token/etc? I found it while going through some old antiques in a family members house.

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 Posted 10/03/2012  4:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add platinrubel to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
seems to be a fake coin to me.
looks a bit like a spanish 8 reales.
smalle pics would be great!
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Here platinrubel, is this better?

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 Posted 10/03/2012  6:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hello and welcome.

Yep, it's a replica Spanish-colonial gold coin. The design is too crude to be genuine. The things inside the corners of the cross, for example, are supposed to be the Spanish lions-and-castles; these just look like squiggles.

Perhaps it was originally sold or given away as an authentic replica "pirate doubloon" souvenir.
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Thank you all for your help. I have actually figured out searching the internet over and over for replicas/bad replicas/etc that this is actually a board game part. It is from the board game Dread Pirate, and then I noticed around the outside of the first picture the bottom half of the letters letters D R E A D P I R A, which is another dead giveaway now that I know what I am looking at. Thank you all for your help, and sorry for wasting your time. I feel like a moron now.
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 Posted 10/03/2012  10:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hey, no worries. We're all here to learn and I wasn't aware of the existence of these board-game pieces, so I've learned something from your post.

I also learned from Googling the game that each game set came with ten of these coins per player. So presumably there's quite a few of them around out there.

And if it makes you feel better, I'll admit trying to make the lettering fit what ought to have been on the coin, without actually noticing that it actually spelled something completely different.
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