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Unidentified - Silver Coin / Token German Empire (1871 - 1922) (Id: Likely Postcard Pendant)

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 Posted 04/25/2020  8:14 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Kingz to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Can anyone help identifying this token? It has the reverse of a coin from the German Empire. It appears to have been used as some kind of jewelery, but still has a nice touch and luster in my opinion. Any info is welcome, the coin is 17mm and weighs 1.5 grams with a thin planchet

Unidentified---Silver-Coin-/-Token-German-Empire-1871---1922-Id:-Likely-Postcard-Pendant
Unidentified---Silver-Coin-/-Token-German-Empire-1871---1922-Id:-Likely-Postcard-Pendant
Unidentified---Silver-Coin-/-Token-German-Empire-1871---1922-Id:-Likely-Postcard-Pendant
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 Posted 04/26/2020  7:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It isn't an altered coin - the obverse (the eagle-side is the obverse of these coins) is engraved a little too crudely, and at the bottom, where there should be two identical letters (eg. "A-A" or "G-G", there are two different letters ("B-M"), which I assume would be the initials of the manufacturer. Given the design, I would assume it's a made-for-jewellery piece, later broken off (perhaps during post-war hard times to be spent as money).

On the reverse, we have what appears to be a "postal stationery" postcard (the only words I can read are the top two lines, "Deutsches Reichspost Postkarte"), perhaps something like this example on Wikimedia. Presumably it was given to a son/husband/fiancee/boyfriend, perhaps someone who had gone off to war, reminding them to keep in touch by writing letters.
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 Posted 04/26/2020  8:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kingz to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
wow cool thanks for the elaborate explanation and time to try and read what on it, I think you are spot on!
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 Posted 04/30/2020  6:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add retiredkper to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This is a private issue made by B. Meyer in the size of a 20 pfennig.
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