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WalkerMo New Member United States 37 Posts	Posted 12/22/2019 10:49 pm Report this Post to the Staff

MontCollector Pillar of the Community United States 2403 Posts	Posted 12/22/2019 11:01 pm To the CCF! I hope you do not mind but I cropped and enlarged your photos to make it easier for members to see. I am not sure what this is. Hopefully someone will be along soon and be able to help. Report this Post to the Staff
WalkerMo New Member United States 37 Posts	Posted 12/22/2019 11:12 pm Thanks MontCollector for helping with photos! Report this Post to the Staff
spru Bedrock of the Community United States 12477 Posts	Posted 12/23/2019 03:32 am I would guess this is a token of some sort. The first pic seems to be upside-down because I think it pictures candelabras. The second pic seems to be correct given the direction of the leaves or wreath. I don't see a clear date or denomination, but it looks to have Arabic script. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
Seeker55 Pillar of the Community United States 635 Posts	Posted 12/23/2019 10:22 am Yes, a token from Iran from the 1950s or 1960s to celebrate a wedding or New Year https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/co...l?coin=20728 Edited by Seeker55 12/23/2019 10:23 am Report this Post to the Staff
WalkerMo New Member United States 37 Posts	Posted 12/23/2019 2:07 pm Thanks for the help! Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16838 Posts	Posted 12/23/2019 6:40 pm This one is more designed for weddings, rather than Persian New Year or generic celebrations. The design on the reverse is a setting of a traditional Persian wedding-table: a mirror, two candelabras, ceremonial food, etc. Coins are traditionally scattered about the place at Persian weddings; poorer families who can't afford to give away real coins use tokens like these instead. Of course, in modern Iran, the use of tokens might be more normal since inflation and economic collapse has rendered most coins completely valueless and probably hard to come by. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
spru Bedrock of the Community United States 12477 Posts	Posted 12/24/2019 03:03 am Interesting, and good to know I wasn't that far off. What does the script say? 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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