I'm trying through snail-mail to help an elderly man identify a token which has been in his family's possession for about 80 years. I have only this photo; no other physical details as yet. Any ideas?
Howdy I moved this thread over to this forum because not many people go to the Test forum...your photo doesn't show up...try it again...and this time don't push Preview Post... Speedy
Well it looks to have a buddhist temple with worshippers on one side and a heart, wishbone and a lion. My first guess to where its from would be Sri Lanka but I dont think thats right. So I have no idea
Hi Nyarlathotep, and welcome to the forum. That is definitely a Persian lion inside the wishbone/heart, but since Farsi is normally written in Arabic script, and Buddhist symbology would not be likely to appear on an Iranian piece, it just doesn't compute.
Same Coin I have this same coin and haven't been able to identify it either. It belong to my father many years ago.
krafty24657 and Nyarlathotep, it sounds like you need to talk with each other to see how you each obtained this coin. There's also superman06 in the CoinForum who reported one: http://www.coinforum.com/unknown-ancient-coin-medallion_topic5552.html The first example of this was the "Michigan Medallion" found in northern Michigan in 1928. Some professor who is NOT an expert in these things speculated that it was 1000 years old, which is complete hogwash. You can read about it in the threads posted on that forum. However, the fact that there are now 4 people with the same object will really help uncover the truth about it. That token has the Persian royal lion on it, as someone pointed out -- so I'd guess it is no more than 100 years old. All the images are a mish-mash of cross-cultural stuff, and the script is fake look-alike Hindu script. It's been suggested that it was something from the Freemasons. In any case, it looks strongly like some American manufactured thing that is meant to look pseudo-Asian, so probably some issue from a secret society or something. So what do the original owners have in common??
Krafty and Nyarlathotep can't hear ya Wolverine. They both haven't been seen since 2009 and 2005 respectively.........
Here's a whole page pretty much dedicated to speculation on it: http://newpagebooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/unearthing-ancient-america-contains.html
The stuff on that website/book about the "coin" is complete bunk. It is not ancient, and now there are 4 examples of it, probably all in the US.
Well, that was rather snarky. Kasia only endeavored to help. You, on the other hand, resurrected a thread from days gone by with posters who are no longer with us.
