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New Member
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Hello all, I'm relatively new to the whole collecting scene. I've not long found myself working in the banking industry in England and have, in a fairly short space of time acquired a fair few coins. At the moment I have no real aim to my collecting other than collecting! I do however need some assistance on what I think is a coin, I'm not too sure if it is as I cannot find any examples of it at all. Any help would be appreciated. If I can work this right I'll try and upload some pics. Hope that's ok. Jethro   *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Moderator
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 I have moved your post into the section for identification to get slightly different readers. |
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New Member
 United Kingdom
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Thanks for that. Was slightly unsure if posting pics there was the best place!
Cheers.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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The photos aren't terribly clear I'm afraid. But from the symbol on the reverse I don't think this is a coin, but a jeton. In other words, a counter or gaming piece. Possibly similar to this one with Mercury on the obverse: http://finds.org.uk/database/artefa...rd/id/436116But really we'd need better photos to tell, or if you can read the legends? |
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New Member
United Kingdom
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I appreciate the help guys, I'll try and post some more pics at a higher res when I can. On the "orb" side the legend possibly reads "MKP.DEUS", there is more but I cannot read it. For the "bust" side it's something like "RIC:?V?LELAS.." these may not be correct but hopefully may be of use.
Jethro.
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Pillar of the Community
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Definitely a Nuremberg orb jeton of Wolf Laufer (WOLF LAVFER in the first pic legend). Not a rose on the other side though. Could it be a winged lion of St Mark?
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United States
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to the community. Nice find, these Jetons are interesting pieces. While not very valuable they nice pieces to collect. BTW, I like your user name. Jethro Tull was one of my favorites bands back in the 60's. |
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Thanks for the help folks. Very much appreciated. It's not really the value I'm worried about, for me it's the history that is interesting. When I manage to scan at a higher res I will post some more. The picture looks like a person looking to the left with feather in their hat, it is quite worn though so I may be wrong.
Cheers for the "like" of the name. I was not around to see them in the 60's but do have most of the albums now!
Jethro.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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That's the one! Much better condition than the one I have.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Using the links provided by you guys and then other reading there are 3 gents named wolf that have produced these jetons. Any idea how I would find the approx age of the one I have?
Jethro
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identified, moving to the token section
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Posted 09/28/2013 3:35 pm
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