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canary01 Valued Member Netherlands 202 Posts	Posted 12/21/2014 12:38 pm Hello, Can someone help me with this coin? Diameter 23mm, weight 2,95 grams Thanks in advance! Report this Post to the Staff

alganbagerap Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2490 Posts	Posted 12/21/2014 1:42 pm I think it may refer to the Meditations for Lent from St. Thomas Aquinas Report this Post to the Staff
DVCollector Bedrock of the Community United States 10045 Posts	Posted 12/21/2014 3:42 pm "à servais" could mean "was serving in..." Dargen may be a location. This might be "trench art", ie made while soldiers were sitting around. The style of the lettering looks like late 19th to early 20th C. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16827 Posts	Posted 12/21/2014 5:55 pm It looks older than that to me - typical of "love tokens" of the late 18th - early 19th century. Though I'm not sure if the style similarities crossed the channel to France, for the language is French. Can or does "a servais d'argen Thomas d'Aquin" translate to "Was used as money by Thomas Aquinas"? If so, whoever put it there was exaggerating; Aquinas lived in the 1200s and that's not a 1200s coin underneath there. Speaking of which, you can make out a couple of details of the original coin: looks like a crown (or perhaps a letter), with a couple of letters either side of it? Not much to go on. 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
canary01 Valued Member Netherlands 202 Posts	Posted 12/22/2014 4:11 pm Thanks a lot for your responses. I also figured that the alphabet on the reverse is missing the J and U. Any ideas about that? Report this Post to the Staff
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