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Token - The Thing
| Location | United States |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Composition | Nickel-zinc |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a dramatic scene of a monstrous alien creature bursting outward with radiating appendages, rendered in high relief against a circular field. The number 2396 appears in the lower exergue. The legend NOBODY TRUSTS arcs along the upper rim and ANYBODY NOW arcs along the lower rim, both separated by a zigzag decorative border. |
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| Reverse description | The official title logo for the 1982 John Carpenter film THE THING dominates the field in large bold relief lettering, with a tentacled alien creature device intertwined around the title. Along the upper rim the legend SOMEBODY IN THIS CAMP arcs, and along the lower rim AIN'T WHAT HE APPEARS TO BE completes the phrase, with a stylized globe or wheel motif in the lower field. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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