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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 3192113, member: 39&quot;]Such reckoning tokens - see the text &quot;RECH: PFENNING&quot; on the piece (the rest on that side I cannot read) - were made by private companies, e.g. Lauer in Nuremberg. The pieces were used for calculations, see here for example: <a href="http://www.rechenschieber.org/Rechenpfennige.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.rechenschieber.org/Rechenpfennige.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.rechenschieber.org/Rechenpfennige.pdf</a> (German, but with many illustrations). In the case of your piece, the double eagle suggests Russia (or Germany) methinks while the lady on the other side is supposed to be Pallas Athene ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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