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Tiny Indian Head Token, Identify Language?

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 Posted 06/19/2020  2:00 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Coinaholic73 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Tiny little thing, the size of model toy money tokens so perhaps its a similar thing. Trying to identify where it hails from, can anyone identify the writing on the reverse?


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 Posted 06/20/2020  06:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Pertinax to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
They look like Arabic numbers to me but they don't make any sense. The image on the reverse (the wreath side) is unclear but the bottom line seems to have 1078.

I've seen at least 5 different reverses on these Indian head counters and this one is new to me.

I would like to know who made them and then perhaps we could find out when they were made and why.
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 Posted 06/22/2020  11:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add David Graham to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Is it some sort of knock-off civil war token? As other poster said, writing makes no sense.
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On second thoughts, the head looks more Aztec or Inca like.
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Seems to be a gaming counter or play money loosely based on the US Indian cent. The nonsense inscription is likely intentional nonsense.
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