6255 Pirate Comic - French Copy found / German audio cassette covers /

[kelceycoe]

Here is the coin:

Original links:

Coin

German covers/downloads

French comic

http://www.brickpira...=20&t=11460

This seems hard to find unless you actually put the French name in google. The item number is too small to read so I asked a seller of the French copy on Bricklink for the information and it is 102705.

http://translate.goo...ldAJagi2ku1_t4Q

Some Dutch scans and evidence of a Dutch Lego coin promo.

http://translate.goo...:en-US:official

Also provides download links on Usenet but requires payment if you don't have access already. My advice is just to search for "lego german drama" on Youtube to find these. The cassette covers are cool.

Edited February 23, 2014 by Mister Phes

[TalonCard]

That coin is a fascinating find...I'd love to get my hands on those one of these days!

TC

[Louie le Brickvalier]

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Edited October 19, 2017 by Louie le Brickvalier

[Mencot]

Cool coin, haven´t seen that before

But the comic with the two minifigures I have owned

[pcvando]

http://www.brickpira...=20&t=11460

This seems hard to find unless you actually put the French name in google. The item number is too small to read so I asked a seller of the French copy on Bricklink for the information and it is 102705.

http://translate.goo...ldAJagi2ku1_t4Q

Some Dutch scans and evidence of a Dutch Lego coin promo.

http://translate.goo...:en-US:official

Also provides download links on Usenet but requires payment if you don't have access already. My advice is just to search for "lego german drama" on Youtube to find these. The cassette covers are cool.

http://www.brickpira...=20&t=11460

This seems hard to find unless you actually put the French name in google. The item number is too small to read so I asked a seller of the French copy on Bricklink for the information and it is 102705.

http://translate.goo...ldAJagi2ku1_t4Q

Some Dutch scans and evidence of a Dutch Lego coin promo.

http://translate.goo...:en-US:official

Also provides download links on Usenet but requires payment if you don't have access already. My advice is just to search for "lego german drama" on Youtube to find these. The cassette covers are cool.

Do you have a picture of the coin? All the links are broken :/

[Mister Phes]

Indeed the image links are broken - is there any chance of reposting them as Eurobricks image attachments?

[kelceycoe]

Here is the coin:

Original links:

Coin

German covers/downloads

French comic

Edited February 23, 2014 by Mister Phes

[Mister Phes]

Thanking you kindly sir, I shall insert the images and links into the first post of this thread.

[kelceycoe]

2019 Update: I actually own three of these coins. They are just smaller than the palm of my hand (I'm an adult male) and extremely light weight and made from plastic. I felt they were a disappointment really. The only way you got these was by responding to an ad in the Summer 1989 Dutch newsletter, De Lego Krant.

The below resource briefly describes this but shows the ad. Caution: It is in Dutch and I do happen to have the issue, scanned, this came from.

http://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http://www.miniland.nl/dossier/piraten%201989.htm

If the translation link doesn't work, here's the original link: http://www.miniland.nl/dossier/piraten 1989.htm

Edited June 1, 2019 by kelceycoe

[TalonCard]

I was also able to get a couple of these from a very nice seller on Bricklink awhile back. I agree that they aren't nearly as nice as the picture made them seem. The coin really looks like it has some heft in the image; it looks like a real metal coin. Hats off to the photographer for making it look so good! Even so, they're a nice display piece and I was glad they didn't cost an arm and a leg to buy and ship. I'm going to get one of those really nice coin cases to display them in and no one needs to know they're just plastic, hahaha. 

TC

[kelceycoe]

I wonder if washing them in liquid dish soap like you would cicis would actually make them shine as if they were new and real gold?

[TalonCard]

I'm afraid the paint would flake off, to be honest. I've washed some of the old tiny gold coins that way and the paint came off to varying degrees, it was almost gone one some coins. (I suspect the early years of gold coins wasn't quite as good as the later ones were, but I've been careful to use just regular water, if anything, ever since.)

TC