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It's a pretty slow Sunday so thought I would try to work on my photo skills. I got this token in a junk box from an estate I bought earlier this year. All I've been able to find out is that it's a good luck token. Any & all comments on the token or the photos is appreciated.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Very interesting symbols on the back. A 4 leafed clover, an elephant, a wishbone, and a horseshoe. I'm pretty sure those are symbols of good luck. Not sure about the swastika and the second to last symbol going clockwise.
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Pillar of the Community
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The swastika is an ancient symbol of good luck - the nazi's gave it a bad name.
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Here you go a site devoted to these tokens with more than most want to know! http://www.sageventure.com/coins/tokens.htmlIt doesn't appear to be either die used on other Tokens, From the pictorials on it I think it may be a give away souvenir for helping one of the old time stage magi's and might be listed under the magic tokens. Since they did give out things like that when somebody was called up to help and also sold them to generate some extra cash. Very nice piece. check out the above site as they explain all the symbols generally used on both the the don't worry club or good luck tokens. If you spend some time looking at all the different tokens, You will see one with the swastika on one for a Jewish community center from before the 30's. Which shows how something can be corrupted by association |
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Not sure about the swastika and the second to last symbol going clockwise. Swastikas are very commonly found on pre-WWII good luck charms, typically dating from between the 1890s (when Hindu mysticism became a fad in the West) and the 1930s, when the symbol became linked to Fascism. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it has not been used on good luck charms since then - not in the West, anyway. You can still find swastikas on Indian and Nepali charms. As for the second-last object, I think it is indeed supposed to be a rabbit's foot. One of the "Don't Worry Club" tokens pictured on the site Circus linked to has a more clearly identifiable rabbit's foot. 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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These "Swami All-Seeing Eye" coins are quite common, here's one of mine:  And here's a "Swami":  https://www.brianrxm.comThe Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin Coins in Movies Coins on Television
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If he's a swami, then "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
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