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Skullhammer
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Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:54 pm

I recently purchased a pewter token/coin made in 1996 (by presumably Ral Partha) with Elminster's face on one side and the head of a red dragon on the other side. The token/coin has a TSR copyright from 1996. The person that I bought this from said that they received it from a former employee of TSR. Does anybody know anything about this? From what I can tell via 1995/1996/1997 Ral Partha catalogs, the only similar tokens/coins that they advertised were for Vampire the Masquerade (69-214, Vampire Tokens) in the 1996 catalog. Could this TSR token be a prototype, or did Ral Partha just release an unadvertised Dungeons & Dragons variant of these tokens? Any information would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

-Skull

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copycat
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Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2019 7:43 pm

According to https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Ral_Parth ... te-RP94-58, there was something in 1993-1194 for "Coins of the Realm" which included historical and fantasy things. Maybe this is from that?

I don't know.

Hope it was helpful.

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SimperingToad
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Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2019 5:53 pm

That was my first thought as well. This is the only thing I am aware of, and it does not appear to be one of them. Coins - Lost Minis Wiki

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grodog
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Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 5:15 pm

I would ask in the Old School Minis group on FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/339877386089536/

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chromaticknight
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 6:31 am

I don't have any additional info but I have pics of a second one.

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Skullhammer
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 6:47 am

The mystery thickens. Thanks for helping out with this. As per Grodog's recommendation, I posted this question on FB's Old School Miniatures group yesterday - if the mystery is solved, I'll post it here.

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