What is it?? Need help!!

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• TennesseeDave Posts: 4,890 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 31, 2007 8:12PM

  What is it made of?By those pics the date looks like 1989.Cool looking.

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• Bruceswar Posts: 2,869

  March 31, 2007 8:35PM

  If I was to guess I would say Brass that is gold plated? As to the date you are correct. I had to take my loupe out..

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• PerryHall Posts: 47,501 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 31, 2007 9:12PM

  Doesn't look like a coin. Looks like a mardi-gras token or a good luck medal of some kind.

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• 291fifth Posts: 25,153 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 31, 2007 9:13PM

  Probably play money used at a modern day renaissance festival.

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• Bruceswar Posts: 2,869

  March 31, 2007 9:16PM

  This coin is fairly thick. This could be very well be from a festival as a gift. Scarborough Fair comes to mind.

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• coinnut Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 31, 2007 9:17PM

  I don't think it's a coin but whatever it is I like it. Very cool piece.

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• Bruceswar Posts: 2,869

  March 31, 2007 9:20PM

  The relief on this coin is really cool!

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• cmerlo1 Posts: 8,028 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 31, 2007 9:39PM

  Texas has a couple of big Renaissance festivals. The last time I went, there was a medieval "mint" set up, that was making coins like this. They had a guillotine-type press where they would place the planchet between the two dies, and then release a weight that would fall on the top die and strike the coin. I believe this is where your coin came from...I know that a lot of the vendors at these fairs travel the contry all year setting up at these Renaissance festivals, so it may even be from the same one!
  
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