Featured German love token

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by crazycatlady, Mar 26, 2021.

  1. crazycatlady

    crazycatlady Well-Known Member

    Hello, any thoughts on this please? It translates to something like 'Cry with me, maybe it's still freezing' or ' cry with me maybe it's freezing again' according to google. Coin diameter is 20mm, it's silver but not sure what grade. Once a 50 Pfennig perhaps? I don't know but it's intriguing.
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  2. antidiem

    antidiem Well-Known Member

    If that word is frier F. - I think it refers to a man.
     
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  3. antidiem

    antidiem Well-Known Member

    I forgot to say, I LOVE IT! :)
     
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  4. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    Ivy leaf for Fidelity and everlasting life:)
     
  5. bobsyouruncle

    bobsyouruncle Well-Known Member

    ? SOMETHING...."with....maybe..." ?friert..."one more time or once again"
     
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  7. MaJa

    MaJa Active Member

    I am trying to decipher the inscription, but it is very rubbed; it is also a mixture of the Latin and German alphabet and I cannot identify the first Letters

    ... weine ni(ch)t, vielleicht friert's noch einmal

    translates to: ... don't cry, maybe it will freeze again/once again.

    It has always been a pendant, never a (reworked) coin.
     
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  8. crazycatlady

    crazycatlady Well-Known Member

    I read it as friert or friert's but could be wrong, I don't know any German at all. Friert es?
     
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  9. MaJa

    MaJa Active Member

    friert's = friert es

    in English: it freezes, because of grammar rules you have what is called an inversion and the subject of the sentence comes after the verb
     
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  10. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    a hard one. is it frierts today or still friert's ?:)
     
  11. MaJa

    MaJa Active Member

    in spoken German still friert's; official written German still "es friert"/"friert es" depending on the sentence/context
     
  12. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    you didn't get the problem.
    but hey, I like you anyways.
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  13. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Maybe two lovers who met ice skating?
     
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  14. crazycatlady

    crazycatlady Well-Known Member

    Thank you, I've had this a few months and when I first tried to translate it this is what I found but can't remember which site I was on. Interesting that it's always been a pendant, I just assumed it would have been made from a coin.
     
  15. crazycatlady

    crazycatlady Well-Known Member

    wow could be, I hadn't thought of that. Got it on ebay, months ago, the seller hadn't been able to translate it and I was the only bidder. When it dropped through my letterbox and I tried translating it the words were actually quite relevant to my personal situation at the time, which was kind of freaky. I've spent ages thinking of different scenarios that could have been the story behind this inscription all those years ago.
     
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