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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 2503989, member: 80804&quot;]These devices appear to be adapted from images of Native Americans popular in Europe in the 18th century - the legend doesn&#039;t seem to be intended to be read - or it&#039;s some sort of imitation of a Greek coin legend - it might be meant to look as if is it to be read something like &quot;bASIΛEV<strike> (Greek for &quot;King&quot;) in the lower right quadrant. The fork-like object in the lower right reverse field looks awfully like the tamgha symbols one finds on medieval coins of the Indian sub-continent.</strike></p><p><strike>In short, it&#039;s a mish-mash - it has obviously circulated extensively or been carried in a pocket as a good-luck piece for many years.&nbsp; I think the Evasion Token theory is a very good guess, although it might have been a &quot;Lodge Penny&quot; - a token of some obscure European club which adopted </strike></p><p><strike>native American themes for its symbology.</strike></p><p><strike>I&#039;m afraid I don&#039;t know why all this has a strike-out line through it, I was merely placing a Greek lamda in the &quot;legend&quot; as an edit and now everything after that word is struck out (?!?)</strike>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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