What you say..

Shipcoin

I got it as a part of a present on my birthday...

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rhound1977

That's pretty neat Nickolai, I can pressume it's like a spinning top? Is there a significane to that?

Glenn

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Thanks Glenn! Yes you are right, children used to play with that top during Hanukka holidays ...

hmmm.. It seems to me I won't allow to my kids to play with that top

cosmicdebris

Cool one

P.S. I learned about dreidels on South Park

theboz11

never seen one, cool

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Thanks Cosmic! Hope that your experience with dreidels was lucky !

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Thanks Theboz!

SYRACUSIAN

PS:Great new icon Glenn

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Thanks Dimitri!


P.S. Great new icon, Theboz!

Bruce

I never saw anything like that before.

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New life for old coins, Bruce..

newsman

<< <i>Cool one

P.S. I learned about dreidels on South Park >>



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1jester

Man! That is cool! Sweet!! I bet its ergonomics are perfect, and that it spins well.

If I'm not mistaken, the word dreidel comes from the German word for spin/turn.

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Jester thanks, I think you are right, but I think that it isn't German it is Yiddish word , I suppose..

Newsman, thanks for the explanations about South Park...

newsman

<< <i>Newsman, thanks for the explanations about South Park... >>



I didn't know if they have it in Israel yet, but on Arab TV it's called "Block 13"

1jester

Shipcoin, surely you're right that it's Yiddish, which is a Germanic language.

satootoko

I hate to call a government agency a liar , but that's only a generic top, not a dreidel, which is a four sided top with a Hebrew letter on each side. The letters SHIN, HEY, GIMEL, NUN mean "A Great Miracle Happened There. A real Israeli top's letters mean " A Great Miracle Happened HERE!".

During Channukah children play a game with the dreidel,using pennies, nuts, raisins, or chocolate coins (gelt) as tokens or chips.

After someone spins the dreidel, the letter that is facing up when it stops tells the players:

NUN - nothing happens - next player spins the dreidel

GIMEL - player takes all tokens in the pot

HEY - player takes half of the pot

SHIN - player must put one token into the pot

At least that's the way I learned it in the 1930s!

Compare

with a real one
Edited to add pictures.

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Newsman, sure I know about that "film". European countries Ambassadors in Israel fainted , when one of Israeli ministers (Scharanskii ) showed them only some small parts of that "film". It looks exactly like Dr. Gebels propaganda- I saw some passages from there.

(But I'm not sure that the "film" you are speaking about has the same name in European countries)



Satootoko -you fantasticly erudite guy! Certainly, I know all the facts you have mentioned here, but I didn't know the rules of children's game and what each letter means, when children play! THANKS!!!! Now when my boys will play real dreidels, like those ones


Real Dreidels

they will know , when everyone gets nutes!!

satootoko

I love the one on the left - beautiful workmanship in the traditional shape.

newsman

<< <i>Newsman, sure I know about that "film". European countries Ambassadors in Israel fainted , when one of Israeli ministers (Scharanskii ) showed them them only some small parts of that "film". It looks exactly like Dr. Gebels propaganda- I saw some passages from there. >>



Don't worry, Nickolai, the real "South Park" is quite different, and quite funny, especially the ones depicting Saddam Hussein as Satan's sex-crazed gay lover.

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O'k Newsman, I thought about it, when I looked at your link, just the film's name you have mentioned seems to be similair to that I mean.

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Satootoko, I have one like that one in the left, made from silver and very nice! But the problem is that on all these dreidels have written

"there" and not "here" !

Askari

NOW I know why some coins have holes in them!! It's certainly a neat item! I've never seen a coin made into a top before -- but Satoo is right, it's not a dreidel and shame on the Israeli Mint for not knowing that!!

Oh, and Happy Birthday, Nickolai!!

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Thanks, Mark it was a few weeks ago! As for the holes, I also thought about it , when I saw it firstly. Israeli Coins and Medals Goverment Co. likes to make some unusual, and I say, sometimes, strange things with the coins...