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Title: Old Playing Card?
Post by: Mortgage Guy on December 19, 2010, 09:58:00 pm

Hi

This is totally out of my comfort zone. Does anybody know anything about this???

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Anything would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
MG

Title: Re: Old Playing Card?
Post by: Gary_T on December 19, 2010, 10:19:59 pm

 I thought of bidding on this but not knowing much about it I decided not to.

 Not having a date on it was the main reason I didn't bid.

Title: Re: Old Playing Card?
Post by: Mortgage Guy on December 19, 2010, 10:30:53 pm

Hi Gary_T

That was a concern and the fact that i do not believe it to be early Canadian. For all i know it's fake but cost me $60 so i thought it wasn't a bad try and it could be 1700 years old. I'm french and can only make out half of it :(

MG

Title: Re: Old Playing Card?
Post by: mmars on December 19, 2010, 10:58:52 pm

Not every old playing card is card money.

Title: Re: Old Playing Card?
Post by: Mortgage Guy on December 19, 2010, 11:18:51 pm

Quote from: mmars on December 19, 2010, 10:58:52 pm

Not every old playing card is card money.

That is correct mmars  ;)

MG

Title: Re: Old Playing Card?
Post by: Bob on December 20, 2010, 09:38:46 am

I was contacted by a collector about this yesterday and told him what I knew then:  that it is an old 6 of Hearts on the back of which is written, in apparently archaic French, a description of a Roman coin.  I didn't know which coin, but a little subsequent digging suggests a minor bronze piece of Constantine II, "CONTSTANTINE IUN.", S3850, the reverse of which contains the words VIRTUS EXERCIT, and two captives seated at foot of trophy "deux captifs asses aux cotes d'un standart". 
We can be absolutely certain that it is not card money!