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<p>[QUOTE="A2Wolverine, post: 1758256, member: 56562"]krafty24657 and Nyarlathotep, it sounds like you need to talk with each other to see how you each obtained this coin. There's also superman06 in the CoinForum who reported one:</p><p><a href="http://www.coinforum.com/unknown-ancient-coin-medallion_topic5552.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinforum.com/unknown-ancient-coin-medallion_topic5552.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinforum.com/unknown-ancient-coin-medallion_topic5552.html</a></p><p> </p><p>The first example of this was the "Michigan Medallion" found in northern Michigan in 1928. Some professor who is NOT an expert in these things speculated that it was 1000 years old, which is complete hogwash. You can read about it in the threads posted on that forum.</p><p> </p><p>However, the fact that there are now 4 people with the same object will really help uncover the truth about it. That token has the Persian royal lion on it, as someone pointed out -- so I'd guess it is no more than 100 years old. All the images are a mish-mash of cross-cultural stuff, and the script is fake look-alike Hindu script. It's been suggested that it was something from the Freemasons. In any case, it looks strongly like some American manufactured thing that is meant to look pseudo-Asian, so probably some issue from a secret society or something.</p><p> </p><p>So what do the original owners have in common??[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="A2Wolverine, post: 1758256, member: 56562"]krafty24657 and Nyarlathotep, it sounds like you need to talk with each other to see how you each obtained this coin. There's also superman06 in the CoinForum who reported one: [url]http://www.coinforum.com/unknown-ancient-coin-medallion_topic5552.html[/url] The first example of this was the "Michigan Medallion" found in northern Michigan in 1928. Some professor who is NOT an expert in these things speculated that it was 1000 years old, which is complete hogwash. You can read about it in the threads posted on that forum. However, the fact that there are now 4 people with the same object will really help uncover the truth about it. That token has the Persian royal lion on it, as someone pointed out -- so I'd guess it is no more than 100 years old. All the images are a mish-mash of cross-cultural stuff, and the script is fake look-alike Hindu script. It's been suggested that it was something from the Freemasons. In any case, it looks strongly like some American manufactured thing that is meant to look pseudo-Asian, so probably some issue from a secret society or something. So what do the original owners have in common??[/QUOTE]
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