Name these objects!
Ok team pop quiz. What are these?
UPDATE: And the winner is John. They are Viking coins, or more to the pointgame tokens based on Viking coins that I made for use with a board that is currently off at the engravers being cut with a various vikinesque patterns. The game is Tafl - Viking Chess and will be available for order in time for the Upper Hutt Spring Festival (Sept 2nd) if all goes to plan.
Below is the latest addition to the set, the king piece (in this case “Eric”) cast in brass. Yes furnace two is now functional and we are moving into brinze and brass casting.
August 18, 2006 at 7:00 pm
I think they are Roman coins.
Demonination? Search me.
August 18, 2006 at 7:08 pm
An ancient pledge card?
August 18, 2006 at 9:23 pm
six oboli on one hand a drachma on the other?
August 18, 2006 at 9:23 pm
Does that mean we can searh Andrei for Roman Coins?
Buttons? Signets? Greek whatchamacallits?
August 18, 2006 at 9:29 pm
Money?
August 18, 2006 at 9:35 pm
Fly buttons found after the boobs on bikes parade?
August 19, 2006 at 3:25 am
As a trivia team player in a bar linked to a nationwide satellite system …
I’m going with Old Fat Sailor’s answer. He sounded confident.
That, and the symbols look more Greek than Roman. *shrug*
August 19, 2006 at 9:31 pm
The new 20 and 50 cent coins 3 days after the warranty from the Canadian Mint expires?
August 20, 2006 at 1:55 am
Viking coinage.
August 20, 2006 at 2:53 am
Greek silver coins
August 21, 2006 at 5:16 am
…game tokens based on Viking coins that I made…
I may have to kill you now. I spent a lot of time looking through the coins of ancient Mediterranean countries, trying to find something that even looked like those coins. By the lettering, it sort of looked like Roman Judea.
Oh, well, at least I saw a lot of cool coins I can’t afford.
This Swedish site is for a company that does historical glass, potter, and metalwork. They have an image like your coin (last one on the right). But even knowing where it came from, I couldn’t find an image of the original.
Nice work, by the way.
August 21, 2006 at 11:55 am
Angie - I just saw the ship… I couldn’t figure out the script. It looked all clinkery and not at all bi-triremeish.
Murray - does this mean I might have to send you money for the house plaque soon?
August 21, 2006 at 1:57 pm
I hope so.
Mind you expect as much again for the damn postage.
Solid metal is heavy. Who knew?
August 23, 2006 at 4:07 am
So are you keeping the lights on and everything just with the foundary work now?
If so, you’ll have to stop every now and then and take a step back and marvel at how cool that is.
*hat tip*
August 23, 2006 at 5:32 am
I just saw some vikings back in Greece. They had two bicycles and two kids. They used those euros thingies by way of coinage. The young baby did look kind of fierce, I think.
August 23, 2006 at 7:30 pm
I’m due to have a day off about March.
Then there’s the book work to see how much Cullen will leave me.
August 29, 2006 at 6:43 am
*chuckle @ Murray*
Yeah. There’s THAT end of it.
I’m wondering how much the cost of health insurance is keeping Americans from even attempting to go into business for themselves. Which, if you think about it, is pretty fucking ironic — and not in a “haha” kind of way.
August 29, 2006 at 8:07 am
We have ACC here so it’s “free”.
And by free I mean that I have to pay $500 a year as a “clothing designer” regardless of my income so all the fuckwits who are not fir to use a sewing machine can get get paid to sit at home after they stitched up their own fingers.
Of course if I hurt myself in the first 24 months and have no history of income as a result I’ll get a big fat goose egg.
Even if I do buy my own insurance I still have to pay them.