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New Member
Austria
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hi all, i´v bought few days ago about 100 coins to learn modern coins. i have only experience with ancient coins. but something like this i´v never seen. I can´t find it. what is it, cent, dime or token ? please can you help me ? thank you very much greetings from vienna   --moved to the Identification forum--Coin Community staffEdited by Sap
12/24/2008 07:26 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
671 Posts |
A VERY bad reproduction of an American coin -- not much more can be said. Hope you didn't lose too much money on this.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
671 Posts |
In addition, I believe it is trying to imitate this US gold five dollar piece. Edited by Sir Ferrari
12/07/2008 11:10 pm
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New Member
 Austria
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hi, thank you. I bought about 100 different world coins. I paid about 15€ for all. fot this coin it would be too much, that's right...
i had really no idea where to find something like that and after searching in google I found your forum. thanks god.
good to know. it was very strange..hmmmm.
thank you one more time.
many greetings
camille
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New Member
Austria
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New Member
Austria
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...by the way. very nice licinius :-)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
671 Posts |
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...by the way. very nice licinius :-) Ah, finally someone who knows my avatar!  To answer your question, I highly doubt anybody would make a token like that, but we do have a few token experts here that might be able to answer you better.  Oh, and  of course. Edited by Sir Ferrari
12/07/2008 11:11 pm
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Moderator
 Australia
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It reminds me of this "coin" posted just yesterday here on the ID Required thread; it too bears a passing resemblance to an American gold coin; on that piece, the artwork is copied reasonably well, but the lettering is very badly blundered; on this piece, it's simply not drawn very well. Given the crudeness of the design, I don't think this one was intended to pass in circulation as a fake gold coin; I think the best explanation for this piece is a piece of play money, or a card game counter. There appears to be a blob of solder or similar in the middle of the reverse; it seems likely this was at once stage made into a button or cuff-link. 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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New Member
Austria
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thank you very much Sap, by the way, very nice larissa :-)
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Moderator
United States
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I agree with Sap, play money.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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to CCF  with SAP. It's a game piece of some sort. |
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United States
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Im with Saps idea it was a button.I can vaguely remember a fashion era in the UK where buttons like coins were popular.I was too young to remember clearly but it wasnt just imitation US coins,all types were used and in jewelry too even though they were obviously imitation. |
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United States
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I am with wetglaswegian. It is a button made to look like a coin, with a looped shank that has been removed. I have a few button identification references stored around here somewhere, and will see if I can dig up a scholarly quote on the phenomenon tomorrow.
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