http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/guitargenius67/DSCF2066.jpg and http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh41/guitargenius67/DSCF2061.jpg This is my coin. I do not know anything about if you guys could give me some details that would be great thank you.
This is not an actual coin. It looks like a gaming token, possibly from an Egyptian themed game or theme park. Its value is negligible.
If it was from a gaming place wouldn't it have it's name on it? And it was in a case along with alot of other coins but the case didn't have any info on it
This looks like no Egyptian coin I know of. I agree with the below post, it looks like some type of gaming token. And there are many tokens without a name on it. But it could be in Egyptian?
SOMETHING is written in the hieroglyphics, the name perhaps? :secret: Now to find a linguist or Egyptologist that can read ancient the language.
The medal in the opening post is not government issued currency. It is just a token or medal, probably as suggested for gaming or souvenir. I have attached an Egypt 2 Piastres (1944) as an example of the writing on Egypt's currency. They use Arabic, hieroglyphics hasn't been used since long before that token was created
As stated above, it is not a coin but a fantasy token of some sort. It may or may not have been produced in Egypt. Whoever did the hieroglyphics did not know them very well, as about half the symbols are backwards and others are not meaningful at all. I think the purpose was to create an interesting arrangement of art in the fields.
Yeah, that's true. I looked up the basic heiroglyphic 'alphabet' and found lots of perplexing errors in them as used on this token. Also did some Google image searches and couldn't turn up anything on gaming tokens like this design. If the 'toning' looks real and this is really a brass metal content piece, maybe this is older than a 'video game arcade' token. Maybe a vintage good luck charm or something meant to look like ancient treasure... from a circus fortune telling machine... A novelty souvenir from an exhibition... something kids could buy out of the back of old comics...
