What is this? 1402 Tree & Bridge Token Overstruck on a Silver Dime

Anyone know what this is? It was overstruck on a silver Roosevelt Dime.

 

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Some sort of Lord of the Rings inspired token. The script is Elven, though I don't know what it says, and I'm not sure what the bridge or tree are referencing exactly. In Tolkien's lore, it was in Shire Year 1402 that Frodo took the ring and began his journey to Mount Doom.

 

As a fan of the LOtR books, I think it's a pretty cool piece!

 

No clue, but it's neat!

 

If true, that's pretty cool. I've seen coins from many places but this is the first Middle Earth coin I've ever seen.

 

That's the rare Bridge over Troubled Water Token by Simon and Garfunkel

 

Prompted by the OP, image search came up with this...
The Hobbit™ Set #7 - The Shire Four Silver Sixpences - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
The OP coin was probably an earlier issue.. Amazing what's out there really.

 

Thanks for the lead!

I found this with the right key words:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/lotr-hobbit-shire-post-coin-1402-137088755

"The book Unusual World Coins lists many of these although there are new ones coming out all the time. Most have VERY limited mintages, mostly 100 or less. PLEASE If you're not sure, please email me through eBay.This auction is for a A SHIRE POST 1402 SixPence MYTHRIL Blue Niobium coin The TOTAL MINTAGE WAS A MERE 12!!! I'll start the bidding rather low even though these have been almost impossible to find.I was so lucky to find a dream collection of Shire Post coins from a private collection. Even though I just got debt free, I simply couldn't pass these up, so I pulled out the plastic..over 3k in coins...some are so rare like only 4 or 12 made. It will be hard to give some of these up! Those who know of this coin know that Tom Maringer of Shire Post created these coins and minted them on old manual screw presses, one at a time as coins were made years and years ago. You likely know that Tom created the coins for his love of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and just wanted to have something tangible as a reminder of these incredible stories. But Tom was forced to stop selling the coins. Mintages were pretty minimal. For example, the bronze Haypenny mintage was 300 and 600 for the copper version, but only 72 for the blue niobium, for example. Needless to say, few of these were sold out before Tom was forced to stop selling his Hobbit/LOTR coins. This means all that remain are those in personal collections. I suppose you could call these hard to find...maybe rare but certainly scarce."

 

Interesting! Do we have any idea of when they were minted?

 

They are 21st century creations. Google revealed the creator is still around and still making coins in Arkansas.

https://www.shirepost.com/collectio...Fdq24hjuCSEENvBQEhS0xfgtDZoYEnQhs1NARrHx8qeWz

 

1402?

 

Of course! Duh!

 

No. I just ordered "Unusual World Coins" from my library, so hopefully I can get some more info.