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I realize that this is an ordinary bullion coin but I had to have one.

http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_unitedstates_d50_2013_buffalo.jpg
United States Gold Buffalo 2013 - Uncirculated

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Navy budgetary belt-tightening may have reached a new - if temporary - low. Officials have frozen the purchase of commanders’ coins - also known as "challenge coins" - using Defense Department...

NJM,

PM sent.

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Am I allowed to mention another coin forum here?

Google:
"Possible coin pendant or seal PORTUGUESE"

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Looks like it has been identified on another forum as an ornament copied from an old Portugal or Portuguese India coin.

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I always liked the design of the Brazilian silver coins:

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Brazil 1000 Reis Girl 1913

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There's a 'Puffin'.

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http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_token_maxmehl.jpg

B. Max Mehl Good Luck Token
The obverse has a figure twirling a lasso.

The reverse has a horseshoe and:
B. MAX MEHL / NUMISMATIST - FORT...

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Let's hope one doesn't end up like Louis XVI.

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It isn't just people from "outside the country".

Few Americans (other than coin collectors) know about the dollar coins.

I have handed out a few and have been asked "are these play money?".
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It looks like a silver Ottoman 5 Kurush/Piastres coin, diameter 40mm, weight around 16 grams.

These were less than 50% silver which may account for how your coin looks.

I have some South...

Please Note: WE WILL NO LONGER SHIP TO LUXEMBOURG, AUSTRALIA, LIBYA, SPAIN, EGYPT, INDIA, UNITED KINGDOM, GREECE, CROATIA OR ITALY·

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http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_indiastates_hyderabad_r01_1361.jpg
India States Hyderabad 1 Rupee AH 1361 Year 32 (1942)

I visited Hyderabad in 1984.

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Putting "coin reclining figure angel" into google produces an Italian medal similar:

http://numismatics.org/search/results?q=category_facet:(+"L1|Medals" +"L2|artist" +"L3|italy" +"L4|15c"...

I have a similar coin:

http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_nepal_r01_2007.jpg
Nepal Silver 1 Rupee VS 2007 (AD 1950)

One interesting fact about these coins is that they were used to pay porters...

I actually got to spend some of these coins in 1986.

http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_egypt_p05_1984_pyramids.jpg

Egypt 5 Piasters 1984

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She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah...

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The Beatles 1964 US Tour Medal, brass, 30mm

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I just received an email from a man whose grandfather received a Bridge Medal in 1896.

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I was asked once if I took "Papal payments".

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This is a pretty interesting film.

The focus is on French medieval coins.

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I also have a few Justinian coins, including this follis from Nicomedia, year 14:

http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_byzantine_justinian_follis_nik.jpg

Justinian AE Follis Nicomedia

Obverse:...

These tokens are common but this one is in nice shape
and has a nice design.

This one has both bridges, the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge.

It is brass but looks almost golden or...

My mom was born in 1919.

But not in India.

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It is an Iranian (Persian) wedding token:

Here are some of these tokens:
http://users.pullman.com/fjstevens/tokens/arrastokens/IranTokens.html

Yours looks like the "Higher Quality Modern Type,...