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Identification Help Please (Id: Likely Sca Demonstration Souvenir)

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 Posted 04/12/2010  09:19 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add shinycoin to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
My spouse found this in pocket change. Any ideas?

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Could it be a "Lord of the Rings" promo item, perhaps?
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Not Lord of the Rings (I don't recall dragonflies featuring in that book/movie) but I think you're not too far wrong.

It's definitely in the style of a mediaeval silver coin, but I've never seen one quite like that - bugs weren't a popular design motif back then. I suspect it's a modern fantasy, made by the Society for Creative Anachronism or some similar back-to-the-past group.

The legend on the reverse (dragonfly) side is GVNTHR PRI REISA. I can't read the obverse inscription too clearly (the pic is upside down; it's either a picture of a guy in an odd hat reading a book, or some king of castle) but the last two words appear to be "OF DARKWOD".

A Google search for "Darkwod" or "Darkwood" reveals several possibilities including an SCA "armoury", but nothing definite.
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Thanks for the clues!

Now that you say this, I do recall that we were at a Museum exhibit, where the SCA was having a demonstration and a man stamped a coin for my son (not this one). That's probably the best answer for what this is. My spouse said this one came from a coke machine coin return.
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