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Mystery Coin

PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:03 am
by Jestermon
Hi, my boss told me to find out what this coin is, it has a Muslim/Russian style castle on the back, with what looks like people standing in front, and a peace sign thing on the front over soemthing that I can not make out, if anyone knows what this is please tell me.

I inverted a set of the scans so you can see it better thanks.

http://s72.photobucket.com/albums/i186/ ... t=coin.jpg

PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:29 am
by piranacon
have you tryed doing a rubbing of it on paper, it might bring out some more detail, im not sure but id say its definatly pre g1 lol

PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:45 pm
by evilratbat
email this guy he seems to know hes coins

http://www.castlecoins.co.uk/html/contact_us.html

I touched up the image for you as Well

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I would say indian due to the building look and i keep looking at this Arrggghhh!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:46 pm
by tentagil
looks Russian to me, but I'm no extra.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:40 pm
by evilratbat
you mean the st petersburg in russia and i think you meant expert

PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:24 pm
by Ramrider
I think, ERB, you're referring to St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.

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There are some similarities, bt it's definitely not that.

I'm defiitely thinking it's more eastern, possibly an Indian palace of some kind.

ya

PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:14 pm
by Jestermon
Apparently it is an Aladdin's castle token, I had no clue the ones that were around when I were younger had the lamp and name on them, a guy on another board told me.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/petromyzon ... 15/?page=8

Dunno what year or anything but apparently that is what it is, guess I was thinking too much when I saw it.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:13 am
by Transtopias Rodimus Prime
hahahahahahahahahahahahah ha ha ha! :lol:

PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:28 pm
by tentagil
Spellcheck got me up there:) And thats funny, considering how damaged it is I would have never guessed it was a token. But hey, tis still kinda cool.

ya

PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:12 pm
by Jestermon
Now I wish I could find out what year it is, I found the pics but it would be neat to know how long its been out, to have all that damage lol.

PostPosted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:22 pm
by gawd6sic6
i havent seen an aladdins castle around here for over 10 years... use to live at one when i was like 7..... but havent seen one in ages!