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Hello everyone those is my first post and although I'm not a huge collecter those had def sparked my interest. As my close relative passed away I was given this coin amongst other coins they had collected over their lifetime I was wondering if you could shed some insight I Googled and found everything she find anything even closely resembling this coin and I've just been taken for a run around in circles. Thank you in advance. Also my assumptions were a misprint? but no denomination on the coin that makes me think it could be a token of some sort. like I said any insight would be much appreciated.   Edited by thetechsd
09/22/2018 05:24 am
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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It looks like, and is probably imitating, a Liberty Head half eagle (I can tell it's imitating a half eagle specifically, and not another denomination, because of the IVED, where the actual half eagle has "FIVE D."), but the lettering is so incredibly crude (even as the pictures are actually kind of close) that I'm not sure what's going on. It definitely wasn't going to pass as a (gold) half eagle.
I can't read the lettering on Liberty's crown - does it say ALTOHIT? If so, that might be a maker's mark (I definitely can't see one anywhere else).
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Valued Member
United States
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What's the weight and diameter? (Although I suspect it's the diameter of the Half Eagle as january1may suggested.) Is it attracted to a magnet? Any indication that it was ever plated?
I wonder if it could have been a movie prop or some other imitation where the details aren't important.
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 United States
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New Member
 United States
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It is completely non magnetic and it does say LIDHIT. None of the other words translate on Google to anything including that one
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Australia
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It isn't an "unknown language" - it's just random letters, meant to look something like what an American $5 gold coin looks like, at first glance.
I'm not entirely sure what the piece was made for. I suspect it's made for costume jewellery: you put it in a necklace or earring, and it looks at first glance like a piece of jewellery made with a real five dollar coin (which was a fashionable thing to do over 100 years ago). The nonsense lettering and date ought to make it obvious to everyone that it's not a real coin, in the event of someone breaking it out of its jewellery mount.
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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Canada
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Maybe a Roman coin. Latin writing?
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United States
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Part of Elon Musk's time travels, and he wants it back.
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United States
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This looks like what'd result if the Mint was using those Martha Washington nonsense designs back when Liberty gold $5s were being made. This one has that "cast Chinese fake" look, however, and nonsense patterns aren't known from that era, so I highly doubt it's some unknown test piece.
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Canada
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Whatever the purpose of the maker of this item, it is probably lost in the mists of time, unless the maker is also on CCF. Perhaps jewellery, a movie prop, a magician's "coin", a fake for the illiterate. Your speculation is as good as any. It resembles a coin but that is it.
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