Egyptian Thing. Couple Wheats and Token + Nice Eyeball Catch.

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Stiffwrists

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• Sep 19, 2018

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Resumed the city curbstrips today. No silver, but a cool Egyptian thing. It has some sort of adhesive on the back of it. If anyone has any idea what it is, or how old it is, let me know! The token is damaged, but I've never seen one like it before. Good amount of clad and... a nice working FitBit Zip. I think they retail for 50 bucks or so. Thanks for looking.

 

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joe dert

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• Sep 19, 2018

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The Egyptian piece...the material looks like the same stuff used in weighed candlesticks from around the 1920s...so..a weighted decorative piece..the filling gives a candlestick better balance..and keeps the thin metal like silver from easily denting...

 

SoOregonMd

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• Sep 19, 2018

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Adhesive on the back?
fridge magnet maybe?

if not.. might make a cool one

 

ecmo

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• Sep 20, 2018

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Nice finds, there may be silver buried amongst those wheaties. I thought the Egyptian thing was a broach so I googled Egyptian face broach and was shown bunches of broaches including a couple pics of ladies with a broach stuck to their forehead. Wonder if that's the reason for the gummy looking stuff on the back.

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• Sep 20, 2018

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Nice job keeping those eyes open!

 

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joe dert

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• Sep 21, 2018

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I really don't think it was glued to a forehead...the filling is for strength..to keep the thin metal from denting..same idea as a weighted silver candlestick..if you ever break open a weighted piece you'll see similar filling.. actually a clay in the older ones

 

teotwawki12

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• Sep 21, 2018

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I’m 99.99% sure it’s a relic taken from King Tut’s tomb. Probably dropped by the archeologist when walking on that sidewalk. Men in the 20's were known for having the bottoms of their pockets ruined from placing still-hot tobacco pipes in their front pockets and burning the fabric.

What you describe as adhesive is actually goat fat. It was commonly used in ancient Egypt as an aphrodisiac.

 

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• Sep 22, 2018

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teotwawki12 said:

I’m 99.99% sure it’s a relic taken from King Tut’s tomb. Probably dropped by the archeologist when walking on that sidewalk. Men in the 20's were known for having the bottoms of their pockets ruined from placing still-hot tobacco pipes in their front pockets and burning the fabric.

What you describe as adhesive is actually goat fat. It was commonly used in ancient Egypt as an aphrodisiac.

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I'm liking the cut of your jib!

 

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• Sep 22, 2018

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Sweet IDX token there Stiffy! I bet you could sell it to our Forum Brother IDX Monster?! I bet he dont have one of those! Hell! Trade it to him for a silver Quarter or something! He's got plenty of them just laying around!