Freaky Friday . . . . .

Post up your weirdest, freakiest, head tilting, bizarre designs. They can be coinage, medals, tokens, any form of minted exonumia or numismatic pieces. There have got to be some good ones I haven't yet seen.

Z

I will start with this relatively mild piece designed by D. Carr . . . . .

"I'll show you mine, if you show me yours . . . . ."

 

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I don't remember the significance behind the imagery but here is Louis XIV medal


A Landis piece


and I usually post this one around Halloween. How much freakier can you get than a head on a platter?

 

Not a coin, but how about 500 marks notgeld on silk from the city of Bielefeld.

Kind of creepy the longer you look at it.



Numista link for translations
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note274388.html

 

I’ll either win this thread or get deleted but here goes

 

Y'all got me beat. I need to look harder. I thought a Thomas Paine piece would have showed up by now.

Z

 

Struck by Whitehead & Hoag no less . . . .

Z

 

This is the only one I can think of:

 

And here is a thread about the above coin:
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/another-addition-from-kazakhstan-tobol-thinker-tantalum.367479/

 

Y'all are really bringing the freak!

How about a medal commemorating the burning of Frankenstein Hall?

100 years before I took my first breath.

Z

 

No freak thread would be complete without mention of Dr. Franz Gall, founder of the pseudo "science" of phrenology.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Joseph_Gall
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology

Z

 

Youse guys is all nuts.......

 

Guilty as charged . . . .

Z

 

Now that one is just plain scary . . . .

Z