Please Help Identifying This Old (German?) Coin

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theta1975 New Member United States 1 Posts	Posted 04/29/2014 6:28 pm Recently found this coin that I can not identify(date, country of origin, denomination). Any thoughts? Thanks in advance Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16849 Posts	Posted 04/29/2014 9:38 pm Hello and welcome. This Austrian auction house doesn't really seem to know what it is, either. I think it is a "friendship medal" of some kind, not a coin. The names "DAVID" and "IONAT" presumably refer to the biblical characters of King David and Prince Jonathan; the German text around it appears to be derived from an Old German version of 1 Samuel 20:23 ("I.SA 20" being the scripture reference). The one that sold there for 240 euros back in 2008 was unholed; here's a picture of it. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
philadelphian Pillar of the Community United States 3253 Posts	Posted 04/29/2014 9:56 pm Welcome! And very pretty. An undated "friendship medal" by Austrian medallist Hermann Roth von Rothenfels (1650-1728), or a contemporary imitation. http://www.archive.org/stream/biogr...222/mode/2up It features texts from the Luther Bible. The second pic's side has the hole through what once read SAM 20, or the book of Samuel, chapter 20 (chapter 23 in the Catholic Bible), where David and Jonathan make a pact before God. That's DAVID and IONAT beneath the tree. The side in the first pic has SI 37 at the top, for the deuterocanonical book of Sirach 37:6. "Do not forget your friend." Edited by philadelphian 04/29/2014 9:58 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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