Found A Coin Building My Brothers House (Id: 1800-S Spiel Marke / Gaming Token)

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margonor New Member Spain 2 Posts	Posted 04/08/2024 09:18 am Digging to make my brother´s house I found a few coins and an old gun and bullets. A couple of them coins are from 1875 and easily identifiable although in a bit of a bad state, if someone knows a tip to clean them I'll appreciate it. But there was a coin which we have no clue about what or where is it from. I'll post a picture, hopefully someone has seen one similar before. Report this Post to the Staff

jbuck Moderator United States 188213 Posts	Posted 04/08/2024 12:04 pm to the Community! 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
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 04/08/2024 2:55 pm to the CCF! Edited by Coinfrog 04/08/2024 2:56 pm Report this Post to the Staff
rggoodie Moderator United States 23507 Posts	Posted 04/08/2024 9:52 pm It looks like some type of token. Without some writting or value designation on it it would not be a coin rggoodie aka Richard "catch em doing something right" Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16826 Posts	Posted 04/09/2024 12:02 am Agree a token of some kind. If it's been dug up out of the ground and looks black like this, then it's probably made of brass. If it was found with coins from the late 1800s, then it too probably dates from the late 1800s. With no indication of manufacturer or issuer, tracking down any information about it is going to be tricky. Such tokens are poorly studied and their cataloguing is very patchy. I suspect it may have been used in a game of chance, either sold with a deck of cards or used in very early gambling machines known as trade stimulators. 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
margonor New Member Spain 2 Posts	Posted 04/09/2024 08:46 am Thank you, I think that might be the best explanation, but as you said, as it does not have any letters or words, it'll be hard to find anything Report this Post to the Staff
Brummagem Valued Member United States 128 Posts	Posted 04/10/2024 11:19 am Neat find! I think it could be of German make and fall into the c. mid-late 1800s Spiel Marke / gaming tokens category. I did a quick search on Worthpoint and found other uses of the grapes die, including one matched with a Spiel Marke legend. I added your token to these composites as I was in the process of gathering images. I found a similar tree matched with a sun face - and you will see the sun face was also matched with the grapes. This shows that that all these tokens were probably made in the same shop. Probabably Nuremberg --? Report this Post to the Staff
Dearborn Moderator United States 95740 Posts	Posted 05/01/2024 10:05 pm Can you post up better images of this? properly cropped and pleas add a bit of light to illuminate it. Collecting since 1972. Learning from then on "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin 7070 type set coin count: 51/76 Uncirculated American Silver Eagles My American Silver Eagle Proof Collection Sacagawea Dollars Innovation Dollars Eisenhower-Dollars Kennedy-Half Dollars Washington-Quarters Roosevelt-Dimes Buffalo-Nickels 1938-2005 Jefferson-Nickels Lincoln-Cents Report this Post to the Staff
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