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I know it's a cast fake (it even says "COPY" on it  ) but, out of curiosity, what is it a copy of? Thanks!   In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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It's.... Ahem,....a lot of Bull..!  |
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Thanks Bob L! Quote:
a lot of Bull..! I'm familiar with bull-headed men but, not man-headed bulls! I actually just found this one when I searched ebay: 112540606633I posted it in the counterfeit section. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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I remember when these first came around. Some company, like Readers Digest?, had sent them out as tokens for you to send back if you wanted their product/subscription/whatever. Fairly thin and brass colored, but lots of relief and the grainy look designed in. They were emulations, but not fakes in the usual sense of that word.
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08/31/2017 2:23 pm
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I think it was Reader's Digest.
I know my father had a few of these in his collection.
Paul Bulgerin
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I still don't know for sure where they came from (Reader's Digest seems the most plausible explanation, but I've not yet seen one still glued to the card), all I know is that they've been fooling and confusing forum members since the forum was founded. CCF thread #3546, January 2006. 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
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Those tokens are not all that old. We'll have to get Doug Smith to reply. It seems that in 2009 he had some reference to the Reader's Digest origin of these tokens on a web page he had done on "fakes." Maybe he had a copy/image of the card for the book they were using it to promote. Either a book on ancient Greek history (e.g. Reader's Digest Journeys into the Past: Life in Ancient Greece, 1999) or possibly for starting a Condensed Books subscription.
I will keep looking to see if I kept one of those on its card as a bookmark.
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