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Picked up a dagger.
1 end, the hilt, is an Italian/German Nazi service medal
The other is this thing that looks to me to be a coin. Limited on what can see, so sorry
LMK if it is and what it is if you know. I think the entire hilt is made of these coins
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and because I know people are always curious, here is the pommel
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 Posted 02/06/2014  5:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It is a coin, or a piece of one anyway. A nickel 1 franc coin from Morocco.
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Not bad! Can we see the whole thing?
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BTW
Thank you for the cojn info
As I used a loup and light I can see the underside of the coin at the guard has been filed off except for a small point. Several layers up I can see more of the filigree from the coin on another. I think they were all once the 1 frank coins
I am on a knife forum now to determine whatever I can about it.
I think 2 medals were used to make the bronze rings, knowing what the hilt is. The blue APPEARS to be wrapped but it is hard. No idea what the white is.
I think this is like a form of European tramp art to be honest. A blade existed and someone improvised or got created and made the hilt/grip.
The scabbard is too large at the guard end so I think the blade that was in it before this was much larger or even a sword. The bronze belt catch has been soldered on...AND unless I miss my guess, the skin covering it is from a monitor lizard.
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