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Just picked this up from a local coin club auction, for a price so low even Scrooge McDuck wouldn't flinch at paying  :   It's a Disney "token" and the language on it is in German. The denomination is "1 taler" and it's dated 1998. It's 24mm across and rather thick and heavy; it seems to be made of white metal or pewter and seems to be cast rather than struck - there's an obvious seam line running around the coin's rim. I find the translations of the familiar Disney characters into German interesting. "Entenhausen" is how the name of the fictitious city "Duckburg" has been rendered into German, and good ol' Mickey becomes "Micky Maus" (no "E"). There isn't a "German Disneyland" - EuroDisney is in France - so I assume it's simply some licensed German play money. 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
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How fun is that!! Thanks for sharing.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Terrific and fun piece of play money. Play money is one of those sub sets of collecting that has found its way into my own. You don't want to go there, but soon instead of one piece, you have two, amd when you hit three different pieces you may as well throw your hands up in the air as you have become a play money collector.
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 United States
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It's funny to see the ©Disney on there. I wonder if they allowed the production of this coin.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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It's funny to see the ©Disney on there. I wonder if they allowed the production of this coin.
Why not. It would just be one more of thousands of Disney licensed products. I don't know if they still do or not, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had a deal with Disney to license all of their RCMP related goods. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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very interesting, thank you for sharing
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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There isn't a "German Disneyland" - EuroDisney is in France - so I assume it's simply some licensed German play money.
Maybe so; could be from a game, or maybe it was some freebie that one would get when buying a DD or MM magazine. By the way, there is no EuroDisney either  ; that theme park is called Disneyland Paris. Oh, and here http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...270111927902 is an auction (ended though) with a token like the one you have, plus two others ... Christian |
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 Australia
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Thanks for the link, chrisild.  Based on that evidence, it seems Entenhausen uses a decimal monetary system, with 10 kreuzers to the taler. 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
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Germany
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No, I guess that anything but 1:100 would confuse the readers ... So it's 1 Taler = 100 Kreuzer. Also see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzer_(Münze) "Kreuzer und Taler werden als Währung auch in Entenhausen verwendet, der Stadt, in der die Comicfigur Donald Duck wohnt. Dort entsprechen 100 Kreuzer einem Taler." Nevertheless a German company which sells mostly medals once offered this thing: http://www.comicguide.net/_bilder/l...usmuenze.jpgDagobert Duck (Scrooge McDuck) and his "first euro". Phhh - Entenhausen had and has Talers and Kreuzers. Christian |
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This coin was a gift when it was found out that the German version of the weekly Donald Duck existed 25 years. You could get it as a premium from the Bank of the Town Donald is living in.
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Posted 06/15/2007 12:25 pm
