Here's a neat case of self-perpetuating archaeology. Medieval history spawned sword & sorcery literature. This literature spawned tabletop fantasy role-playing games and Medieval re-enactment groups. These games and groups spawned live action role playing. And now the larpers have created a market for faux-Medieval coinage, which they are buying at game stores, using at larps and dropping here and there. Metal detectorists are starting to find coins like the one in the picture and submitting them to intrigued museum curators.
Can anybody tell me the name of the company that makes/made these toy coins?
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“You ain’t supposed to get salmon when they’re swimming upstream to spawn. But if you’re hungry, you do.” -Loretta Lynn
I'm hitting on something deeply twisted this week. It's called homespring. Homespring is interesting for two reasons. First, it's got a sort of reverse flavor to it: it consists of active agents in a passive structure.
According to a new paper showing temporal and spatial patterns of migratory routes and spawning grounds of bluefin tuna, they were in the Gulf of Mexico spawning at the moment the oil well exploded
We're gonna need a bigger canoe...
This is not a hoax. This monstrous Chinook Salmon was found dead in a shallow stream by the California Department of Fish and Game.
I have a crack team of game store employees and owners in the case, who politely request a photo of the reverse if possible? Unless it's identical, which seems unlikely.
You got it, see above. Same but mirrored.
So far, everyone agrees it's not available in the US. My sole Swedish gaming friend in Lund has not weighed in on the subject yet.
Thanks for looking! Someone told me ToysRUs sell them in Sweden in several sizes.
In the medieval re-enactment group I belong to there are moneyers who create coin of the realm, so to speak. A few have deliberately gone out into the hinterlands to bury caches of replica coins from different cultures and time periods with the thought being of confusing future archaeologists, ie, Roman, Norse and English.
Haha! Evil!
The swedish branch of the SCA got contacted by the Royal Coin Cabinet a few years ago to help identify a 15th cent. style coin they had minted in 1992...
http://mail.nordmark.org/pipermail/skanordmark_nordmark.org/2005-Februa…
From a friend who is a LARPer
It's not an Empire or Maelstrom (two of the UK games) coin that much I do know. I believe Lorien Trust still use plastic coins. It would help if they said where this was found.
If they're simply trying to find out where they're made I know Profound Decisions sourced the coins for Empire from China.