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Posted 01/18/2008 03:50 am
It's certainly not a coin, but I'm thinking more along the lines of "gambling token".
"Three Queens" sounds like a poker reference, and I'm guessing it was used in what Amercians call "slot machines", and are known as "poker machines" or "pokies" over here in Australia.
It might help if we knew where it came from, and it probably hasn't strayed too far from it's country of origin. Sabc42, what country are you in, if you don't mind us asking? The intertwined monogram looks very similar to the monograms that appear on the tokens issued by various clubs and associations here in Australia, for use in the semi-illegal poker machines here in the pre-WWII period. Here's what I'm talking about.
If I'm right, this token would be what the slot machine spat out at you when you "won".
But I'm not sure how Valentine's Day fits into this theory... unless it's a reference to the Valentine's Day Massacre?
"Three Queens" sounds like a poker reference, and I'm guessing it was used in what Amercians call "slot machines", and are known as "poker machines" or "pokies" over here in Australia.
It might help if we knew where it came from, and it probably hasn't strayed too far from it's country of origin. Sabc42, what country are you in, if you don't mind us asking? The intertwined monogram looks very similar to the monograms that appear on the tokens issued by various clubs and associations here in Australia, for use in the semi-illegal poker machines here in the pre-WWII period. Here's what I'm talking about.
If I'm right, this token would be what the slot machine spat out at you when you "won".
But I'm not sure how Valentine's Day fits into this theory... unless it's a reference to the Valentine's Day Massacre?
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
