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scoutjim99 Pillar of the Community United States 4589 Posts	Posted 05/14/2006 8:00 pm I have researched it and found lots of info but never the exact coinor medal I think saxon origin with a leipzig mint mark it is Friedrick August Koenig Von Sachsen on the revers it says Liebeund Hoffnung I believe its called a Letton Image: coin-german-unkown token.jpg 31.26 KB Image: coin-german-unkown token-rev.jpg 41.36 KB Report this Post to the Staff

KLD Pillar of the Community Australia 1079 Posts	Posted 05/15/2006 04:32 am Jim, You know more then I do on this one. Report this Post to the Staff
swamperbob Pillar of the Community United States 5362 Posts	Posted 05/15/2006 10:06 am Jim - I think the word at the bottom is Jetton - indicating it is a token or marker. They were produced and used for many different purposes as replacements for actual coins. They are also referred to as Gaming tokens or Reckoning counters. Most are Brass. They were made is literally huge numbers in the last half of the 1700s and first half of the 1800s. I don't own any catalogs that list varieties so I have no idea if you have a rare one or not. Report this Post to the Staff
scoutjim99 Pillar of the Community United States 4589 Posts	Posted 05/15/2006 11:51 am that makes sence ,becuse they are kind of made cheeseee, I did not know that Thank you.. Edited by scoutjim99 05/15/2006 1:11 pm Report this Post to the Staff
CarlTromp Valued Member Netherlands 309 Posts	Posted 05/15/2006 12:56 pm Jim, the one you show is a rechenpfennig, a cointingtoken, used by money swappers who counted the german coins into a foreighn valuta. i have several dozens of those, all differend, the Neurenbergische Rechenpfennige catalog has a few hundred pics of those tokens/coins/jetons. Greetings, Carl Report this Post to the Staff
thekidcollector Forum Kid Kuwait 1523 Posts	Posted 05/15/2006 1:02 pm how old r they? Report this Post to the Staff
CarlTromp Valued Member Netherlands 309 Posts	Posted 05/15/2006 1:10 pm quote: Originally posted by thekidcollector how old r they? The oldest in my own collection is from half way 1800, but as far as I'm told, the first known are from the 1600's. Greetings, Carl Report this Post to the Staff
scoutjim99 Pillar of the Community United States 4589 Posts	Posted 05/15/2006 1:13 pm thats cool everyone thank you for the info, that one has eluded me for sometime now and Carl look at the coin grading practice thread some else has shooting thalers YEah.. Thank you all for your info.. an thas Jetton thank you swamperbob Edited by scoutjim99 05/15/2006 1:32 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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