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Posted 06/13/2013 04:57 am
Yep, it's not a genuine Palestine Mandate coin; it's a replica that kind-of resembles such a coin - specifically, the part inside the circle on both sides resembles a genuine 1 mil coin, it is the outer inscriptions on both sides (one side English, the other side Arabic) that are novel. Presumably they were sold to tourists and pilgrims as a kind of "tourist dollar".
These pseudo-replicas have their own listing in the "Unusual World Coins" book, as KMX# Tn1. As such, they also get their own NGC database page. And, because they are listed in UWC, PCGS will therefore consent to slabbing them. They are referred to as "tokens" because Krause has given them the "Tn" (token) prefix to the number, even though they don't appear to me to qualify as "tokens" in the strict monetary sense.
These pseudo-replicas have their own listing in the "Unusual World Coins" book, as KMX# Tn1. As such, they also get their own NGC database page. And, because they are listed in UWC, PCGS will therefore consent to slabbing them. They are referred to as "tokens" because Krause has given them the "Tn" (token) prefix to the number, even though they don't appear to me to qualify as "tokens" in the strict monetary sense.
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