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 Posted 06/14/2017  01:06 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Roguesscholar to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I was changing an outlet in my home and found this coin inside 6 months ago. Hours and hours have been spent trying to identify with no luck. It weighs 15g. Any thoughts or ideas on what this coin/medal might be? Thanks everyone!!

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Do I see St Christopher in there somewhere? Lettering struck me as Ireland too. I haven't spent much time on it tho. Not much at all.
Kind of neat and looks old to me.

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OK now I think it is a religious medal of sorts for Saint Hidegard a nun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen

The I H may stand for Imacculate Heart, just a guess.
I gotta get some sleep. g-nite & good luck.
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This link may lead you somewhere:

http://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coi...n_coin=19066

After reading that and looking at your pics, the bottom part of the legend on the second pic definitely says "Ren' Faire".
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 Posted 06/14/2017  01:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kefiroth to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
According to my internet research, this token/medal was produced for the Glastonbury Renaissance Fair, which is held in Oregon USA.

The reverse design consists of the stylized/mirrored initials of the OCCA (Oregon Coast Council of the Arts), a sponsor of the fair, and dates to 2002.
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 Posted 06/14/2017  01:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TNG to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
awesome spruett001 !
LOL g-nite
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 Posted 06/14/2017  01:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TNG to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Kefiroth, I sit here corrected, made to look old for the Renaissance Fair goers.
I could go for a nice leg of mutton right now.
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Rats, too late! See my edit above.
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These are called USH tokens for Univ. of St Hildegard (SCA)

The obverse is SANCTA HILDEGARDENSIS (which is shortened from the original and correct HILDEGARDIS BINGENSIS) and the reverse is REN FAIRE GLASTONBVRY with lettering in the style of the 13th-15th c. The design on the front is the monogram H imposed over a cross. The reverse design is indeed OCCA, Kefiroth is correct.

NGC appears to actually attribute some of these tokens (amusingly, they anachronistically refer to each token as a "follis" when it should more accurately be called a tetarteron, or, given Hildegard's Germanic roots, a Schwarzpfennig.)
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