Token - Bon Pour Un Jeu Gratuit - Queirolo Francesco / Rotated Die

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Bojan Radosavljevic Valued Member Bosnia And Herzegovina 206 Posts	Posted 01/09/2024 08:20 am Report this Post to the Staff

jbuck Moderator United States 187702 Posts	Posted 01/09/2024 09:59 am Very nice! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34396 Posts	Posted 01/09/2024 12:31 pm Yes that is an interesting one. Here are a couple link to similar game tokens on numista, but one of them has a groove cut on the reverse: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/ex...ia95908.html https://en.numista.com/catalogue/ex...a390499.html Also, mention of the rotation is made in both entries so perhaps all of them were made that way. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16808 Posts	Posted 01/09/2024 8:13 pm It's a curiously multi-lingual token. "BON POUR UN JEU GRATUIT" is French for "good for one free game". "Firenze" is the name of the city of Florence, in Italian, but the word "Italy" is the English spelling. "QUEIROLO FRANCESCO" is the name of an Italian artist from the 1700s, only backwards (Francesco Queirolo); I would assume this is actually the name of a now-extinct company in Florence that made the tokens, and the QF logo is the company logo. A Google search for ["QUEIROLO FRANCESCO" token] comes up with a bunch of tokens exactly like this, plus a couple of tokens purely in Italian. I'd agree I don't think the odd die rotation is an error. Private token manufacturers have much less need than government mints to make sure their die alignments are correct, so there isn't necessarily a "normal" or "correct" orientation. 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
Errers and Varietys Bedrock of the Community United States 73756 Posts	Posted 01/10/2024 11:29 pm Nice! Errers and Varietys. Report this Post to the Staff
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