While I would never buy actual #coins from places like Temu, they are good for #religious pieces to add to my collection of #medallions with #bible quotes. Sometimes they are curious when you look closely though. Here is one.

1 Corinthians 16:13 says " Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong." - this piece quotes the second point and the shield is a symbolic image which matches the sentiment.

The other side has Archangel Michael standing over a serpent - straight out of Revelation 12:7-9. Though it references Psalm 46:1 which starts: "God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble"... Ok, the Archangel defending us from evil, fair enough.

But the text is "Just for today" which doesn't seem to fit at all... Oh and a Narcotics Anonymous square in circle image? Ok, I did get it from Temu...

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Here is a great example of the need to record those little bits of history we come across. This check is uniface, brass, rectangular with a hole and the number 1593 stamped into it. There is no way to know where it came from or what it was used for. It's meaning would be lost to history.

Except, because this piece came from the estate of a worker there, I know that it came from the Bevercotes colliery in Nottinghamshire, UK, which was the first fully automated mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevercotes_Colliery

My understanding is the more common round checks with the colliery name were the worker's pay checks, and these ones were lamp checks, which would be placed near or on lamps, or taken from lamps, so miners would know when & if the lamps had been checked.

(Rectangle check is mine, the round one is from http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-6/B6-1993-P24.html and the colliery image is from Wikipedia)

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A very Happy Feast day of Saint Patrick!

As the reverse of the medallion says:

"May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May God hold you in the palm of His hand."

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