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Bat Coins - Sharkey
| Issuer | Transogram Company |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | BAT COINS SHARKEY |
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| Reverse lettering | BAT COINS TRANSOGRAM |
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Transogram issued these as components for their 1966 Bat Coins game, a Batman-themed coin collecting set aimed at capitalizing on the ABC television series that had premiered in January of that year. The show's runaway popularity in its first season triggered a licensing frenzy, and Transogram was among dozens of manufacturers scrambling to put Batman-branded products on shelves before the craze cooled — which it did, rapidly, by 1968.
Sharkey is one of the villain characters featured across the set. Not a Batman canon figure of any particular significance, the name likely refers to a generic adversary invented for the game rather than a comics or television source.