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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3792955, member: 96898"]That's fascinating – I had heard that there are Indian and silk road gold bracteates but never looked into it. Probably I should do so!</p><p><br /></p><p>By pure and unrelated chance I recognize your second "coin." It is a 19th century token from the church of St. Gregory of Nazianzus at Gelveri in Cappadocia, today known as Güzelyurt. As far as I understand, these tokens (see some similar examples <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=KELVERI+token+37+%22K%3AE%22&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0&currency=usd&company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=KELVERI+token+37+%22K%3AE%22&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0&currency=usd&company=" rel="nofollow">here</a>) served as a sort of pilgrimage souvenir but could also be used to buy votive candles etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>St. Gregory church, built in the 4th century AD and restored in the 1800s, is still standing and can be visited. After the forceful expulsion of the Cappadocian Greeks in the 1920s, it was turned into a mosque. Sadly, the frescoes once adorning the church's interior have been covered up with whitewash when this was done.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/St._Gregory_of_Nazianzos.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3792955, member: 96898"]That's fascinating – I had heard that there are Indian and silk road gold bracteates but never looked into it. Probably I should do so! By pure and unrelated chance I recognize your second "coin." It is a 19th century token from the church of St. Gregory of Nazianzus at Gelveri in Cappadocia, today known as Güzelyurt. As far as I understand, these tokens (see some similar examples [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=KELVERI+token+37+%22K%3AE%22&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0¤cy=usd&company=']here[/URL]) served as a sort of pilgrimage souvenir but could also be used to buy votive candles etc. St. Gregory church, built in the 4th century AD and restored in the 1800s, is still standing and can be visited. After the forceful expulsion of the Cappadocian Greeks in the 1920s, it was turned into a mosque. Sadly, the frescoes once adorning the church's interior have been covered up with whitewash when this was done. [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/St._Gregory_of_Nazianzos.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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