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Mystery Sterling Token

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 Posted 02/09/2018  5:33 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add svnhson to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Afternoon all!
I acquired a strange token recently and was wondering if anyone could help me identify it? The text on one side looks Hebrew and I have no clue what the symbols on the other side are.
Diameter is 15 mm.
Obverse
Mystery--Sterling-Token

Reverse
Mystery--Sterling-Token

Thanks for any help you can provide!
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 Posted 02/09/2018  6:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Finn235 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Occult mumbo jumbo. The Hebrew is the Tetragrammaton, YHVH, said to be the "true" name of God according to the old testament. The other symbols look like Alchemy gibberish, so I doubt this is a Jewish religious token.
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It appears to be Kabbalah related, so maybe from the 90s when that was popular. Popular as in celebrity endorsements but not with the Rabbinical Council of America.
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 Posted 02/09/2018  8:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add moxking to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Just a "magic" token that does nothing and is not likely to be silver.
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 Posted 02/09/2018  10:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add svnhson to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Ok, thanks for your help everyone! Luckily I didn't pay too much for it.
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 Posted 02/09/2018  10:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nautilator to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The symbols are from astrology, so it's probably just memento to that effect. The middle one is for cancer, flanked by the sun. The one on the right is... descending node?

For reference, you can see the signs here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_symbols

Update:

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It appears to be Kabbalah related

It looks like this is true. I'm seeing some sources that connect YHVH and the kabbalah tree of life to astrology.
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02/09/2018 10:39 pm
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 Posted 02/09/2018  11:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cdngmt to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Just a minor correction the hebrew letters are an abreviation for the name of god....the name itself is supposed to have/confer power
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