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1 Red Hand of Saruman Isengard
| Issuer | Shire Post Mint |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Angerthas (Cirth) |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicting the tower of Orthanc, the stronghold of Isengard, rendered in bold relief with a bird — likely a crow or raven — perched atop the pinnacle. The encircling legend 'Yzan Gaarda' is inscribed in the Angerthas runic script, distributed across the field to either side of the tower. The reeded border frames the design with a uniform milled edge treatment, characteristic of the Shire Post Mint fantasy token series. |
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Shire Post Mint operates as a small private mint in Arkansas, producing fantasy coins tied to licensed and unlicensed literary properties. This piece references Saruman's Uruk-hai, who bore the white hand mark as a battlefield identifier during the War of the Ring — a detail Tolkien introduced to distinguish them from Sauron's forces at Rohan.
The X# prefix places it in the Unusual World Coins exonumia classification, the catch-all for pieces outside sovereign coinage.