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BruceswarBruceswar Posts: 2,869
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Here is a coin I have right now, but what is it? Thanks in advance!

Edited to add the date is 1939.

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    TennesseeDaveTennesseeDave Posts: 4,904 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What is it made of?By those pics the date looks like 1989.Cool looking.
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    BruceswarBruceswar Posts: 2,869
    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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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,540 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Doesn't look like a coin. Looks like a mardi-gras token or a good luck medal of some kind.

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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 25,187 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Probably play money used at a modern day renaissance festival.
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    BruceswarBruceswar Posts: 2,869
    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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    coinnutcoinnut Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't think it's a coin but whatever it is I like it. Very cool piece.
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    BruceswarBruceswar Posts: 2,869
    The relief on this coin is really cool!
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    cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 8,045 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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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