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1st One Gaming Token I Believe Second One I'm Not Sure ?

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I think the first one is a gaming token...
Second maybe some sort of magic.. but I'm not 100% sure.. Thank you in advance..Any ideas on Values ?

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 Posted 05/29/2024  7:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It has been a little over 14 years and no one has responded to this request for identification. Hopefully by bumping this thread, we can get some fresh eyes on it.
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 Posted 05/29/2024  8:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Well, apart from "the second one is obviously Egyptian", there's not much to add.

Slightly more specifically, the mosque on the reverse (?) is the Alabastar Mosque in Cairo, with the walls and gateway of the Cairo Citadel in the foreground. Google Maps street view of the site.

The combination of "Islamic tourist site" with "ancient-Egyptian-style art" makes me think it's a souvenir medal for tourists, mid-20th century at the earliest.
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Good call @sap. Any thoughts on which Egyptian gods are represented on the other side?
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They aren't gods. Most Egyptian gods had animal heads, and these guys both look human.

The tall figure in the middle, with the spear and triangle (bow?) is wearing the Deshret, the red crown of Lower Egypt, so that's supposed to be a Pharaoh of some kind. The other figure appears to be just a "redshirt", an extra whose only job there is to be speared and shot by the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh's pose and outfit seems reminiscent of a statuette of Tutankamun, found in his tomb, of the young Pharaoh spearing Seth from a reed raft. The bow does look a very crude and unrealistic add-on, as if the Pharaoh was waving around a triangle. Egyptian artwork consistently depicts bows as arches or crescents, rather than triangles. I suspect the statuette was the inspiration for the artwork here, and modified on the medal to make "guy throwing spear" even more war-like by giving him a bow as well.
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Ok thx @sap for helping me learn several things today. I don't know that we've got enough answers here to consider this thread closed, so I'll keep it open for now.
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Could be earlier. Egypt mania started in the nineteenth century and peaked in the nineteen twenties.
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