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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 9840, member: 669&quot;]A little more research has turned up two possibilities -</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://sc.communities.msn.com/themes/pby/img/emoticons/emthup.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> if the coin measures approximately 22mm, <b>and</b> weighs a hair less than 3.5g.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://sc.communities.msn.com/themes/pby/img/emoticons/emthdown.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> If it is larger, smaller, or too light.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bad news first.&nbsp; According to the sixth entry down at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3btz6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://tinyurl.com/3btz6" rel="nofollow">this French website</a> (English translation <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3fhu2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://tinyurl.com/3fhu2" rel="nofollow">here</a>), it may be a token given away by the Readers Digest some time in the 1980s <img src="http://sc.communities.msn.com/themes/pby/img/emoticons/emcry.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />, in which case it&#039;s numismatically worthless, whether in US$ or NZ$. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;<b>On the other hand</b>&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; ,<i> if </i> it does match those specifications, it seems to be an Austrian Ducat (KM#2041.2), minted at the Karlsburg Mint in Transylvania, and valued in the 2002 3rd Ed. 18th Century Standard Catalog of World Coins at $80 VG, $160 F, $275 VF, $550 XF, and $850 Unc<img src="http://www.toons.artie.com/alphabet/numbers/arg-exclaim-50-trans.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; </p><p>For what it&#039;s worth, my first impression from the picture is XF . <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>That would translate to ~NZ$890. <img src="http://forums.collectors.com/i/authorsicons/beer.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>BTW the reverse legend translates from the Latin as &quot;Thou O Lord art my hope&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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