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I'm wondering if anyone has heard of this Hanuman token? There's a God of Hinduism and I will place a clip of the story. I'm waiting to find one that is similar to this pic. Oh, the God is named Hanuman, hope I spelled that right. There's some on Ebay UK right now but the pics don't look that great, so I'll wait until I see something better.
Just thought I would pass on the story and pic.
God of power and strength Hanuman is an avatar of Vayu (wind), he takes the form of a vanara (monkey). Hanuman was the cleverest and the most powerful of all the monkeys. He had the ability to fly with the speed of the eagle. Shortly after his birth he flew to eat the rays of the sun. Indra became angry and threw his "Vajra" (thunderbolt) weapon at Hanuman who was hit on his left knee, and fell on the top of a high mountain unconscious. When Vayu saw this he stopped the wind. This imperiled all of the gods so they all prayed for the wind to blow again. Indra went to meet the unconscious Hanuman, praised him for surviving the stroke of his weapon, and called him "Maruti" or "son of the wind". As a boon Indra said, "You will not be afraid of death, nobody will be able to kill you with any weapon in war." Hanuman became almost invincible. Vayu was pleased and the wind began to blow gently, and life returned to all living creatures. Rama was ordered by his Guru Vishwamitra, to kill good king Yayati. Yayati went to find Hanuman. When Yayati found him he said to him “I’m Yayati, the king of Kasi. I’m a devotee of Rama. You alone will be able to save me from danger I’m facing now. I entirely depend on you.” Hanuman agreed to save Yayati. When Rama sought Yayati, Hanuman accosted them. He fell at the feet of Rama, “My lord! Please be kind to Yayati. Don’t kill him. He is innocent. Let him go free.” Rama had already strung is Ramaban arrow and could not stop. Hanuman stood in front of Yayati and bared his chest.The arrow pierced his chest and went deep inside and disappeared. But nothing happened to Hanuman.
I was thinking of soaking this token in xylene to clean it up a bit.would you recommend this?I am concerned it might cause irreparable damage.
The reverse looks like it has a fingerprint or something on it.
I am concerned it might cause irreparable damage. The reverse looks like it has a fingerprint or something on it.
Yes it may cause some damage so even though you may want to try to clean it, do yourself a favor and don't try it. I came across a similar token on ebay, it looks like a fire dept token.
Here's the item number, 120461179890. If you want you can watch it till the end of sale and see what it goes for. There's all kinds of collectors and someone collects these for sure, especially someone from NY where the firemen saved alot of lives fighting 9/11.
Yes it may cause some damage so even though you may want to try to clean it, do yourself a favor and don't try it. I came across a similar token on ebay, it looks like a fire dept token.
Here's the item number, 120461179890. If you want you can watch it till the end of sale and see what it goes for. There's all kinds of collectors and someone collects these for sure, especially someone from NY where the firemen saved alot of lives fighting 9/11.
Great, thanks for the info.
I will definitely look into this.
Hiya Fret, been awhile since we chatted. I got this token from the Imperial British East Africa Company this week, Year 1888. Traci
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Not a big token guy, never saw the value in them personally. But good luck!
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Not a big token guy, never saw the value in them personally. But good luck!
Yes alot of coin collectors feel the same way. All you gotta do is look up Conder tokens on ebay and see how many ppl do see a value in them. It's all up to you, more for us anyways.
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