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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 691233, member: 4703&quot;]My guess is a token from the ancient Cambodian temple at Angkor Thom, near the more famous temple at Angkor Wat.</p><p><br /></p><p>The script seems to be <a href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/khmer.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/khmer.htm" rel="nofollow">Khmer</a>, and the combination of the distinctive triple domes on the reverse with the elephant on the left side of the obverse, clearly invoke thoughts of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terrace-of-the-elephants.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terrace-of-the-elephants.jpg" rel="nofollow">Terrace of the Elephants</a>.</p><p><img src="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terrace-of-the-elephants.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>If I&#039;m right, the image could either be Vishnu, in whose honor it was originally built, <i>or</i> Buddha, to whom the temple was re-dedicated as that religion spread and to a great extent replaced Hinduism in the area.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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