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Two Unidentifieds | False Shekel And Maverick Token

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 Posted 03/04/2013  7:31 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Gazot to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Good evening. the first is 33.5 mm and has the appearance of a cheap carnival token but something about it had me thinking.
The second appears to be a common trade token and is 22mm.


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Two-Unidentifieds-|-False-Shekel-And-Maverick-Token

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Two-Unidentifieds-|-False-Shekel-And-Maverick-Token

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 Posted 03/04/2013  8:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The first item is what is known as a "false shekel". As you can probably guess from the name, it's not a genuine coin. It's design is very roughly based on silver shekels struck during the First Jewish Revolt in AD 66-70. See this old thread for a similar example, and more information.

The second piece is a token; I'll let somebody with more experience in identifying American tokens answer that one.
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 Posted 03/05/2013  08:34 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bdahab to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hi Gazot,

I can talk about the first one.
It's Hebrew, one side says Shekel Israel, the other New Jerusalem. I guess it's a Shekel Gorlitz Medal Coin.
You can read more about it here (after translation):
http://he.danielventura.wikia.com/w...%D7%99%D7%A5
and here:
http://www.theshekel.org/article_fa...shekels.html


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 Posted 03/05/2013  8:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jim Delaney to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Your good for token is listed as an unknown/meverick on the site that I list all my tokens but it needs a picture. Can I share your pic?
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 Posted 03/05/2013  8:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gazot to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Of course...thanks for asking.

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 Posted 03/06/2013  09:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add epaulf564 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hi. I don't know about the token, but the first coin shown is Israeli.

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 Posted 03/08/2013  8:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jim Delaney to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the pictures. I loaded them on tokencatalog.com. Would you like me to give you or this site credit for the pics on that site? Both my foreign and U.S. car wash tokens catalogs are listed there. Maybe I can put more pics on there and stir up more interest in this site.
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 Posted 03/10/2013  12:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gazot to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
No credit necessary Jim....party on!
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