Need Help > Word Game > Overstrike on a Belgian Token > What's the word ?? [solved]

Hello,

I've been busting my brain trying to identify what word is beneath GEITJES

Browsing through catalog to see if something catches my eyes

No Luck

Here are some Pictures, all help is very welcome

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Dutch - translates to “goats”

That is what Google translate says.

JLHare

Dutch - translates to “goats”

 

That is what Google translate says.

Nice try, but that's not what I'm looking for

There's an overstrike at the word "GEITJES"

Have a look at the first 2 detail pictures

You will notice that there are smaller letters that got overstruck but it doesn't match GEITJES

Question is what's the word

There's a small S at the end and a small T = between TJ

In between the normal I T you can see a small letter that looks a little bit like an E

This small E makes it unpossible to be simple the same word GEITJES but smaller

Doesn't add up :-)

Could it have been a mistake and someone thought it should say “Grietjes” as in Greetings?

Whatever it is, it is common. Several online have the same issue. Just a few from ebay, but it appears that all of them on there are this way.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134834956044

https://www.ebay.com/itm/395034501217

https://www.ebay.com/itm/393051172594

https://www.ebay.com/itm/197323307380

 Looks like 8 letters over-stamped with those 7 letters, from the spacing > 

 G * * E T * * S / G E I T J E S 

 Maybe it was never meant to be a recognisable word, just an extra letter 

added in error spelling. With a goat lady shown it was Geitjes mis-spelled. 

 Maybe. 

Someone definitely messed up and had to fix it so it's not an overstrike but a refurbished die (at least all the coins posted look the same).

 Guessing the cost of a restrike is less than melting and starting again. 

I´m thinking geietjes … a costly typo … 

 Yes, that lettering would fit. Thanks 

 G  E  I  E  T  J  E  S 

 It is also a real Dutch word - ‘little ones’ is the translation. 

ZacUK

 Yes, that lettering would fit. Thanks 

 

 It is also a real Dutch word - ‘little ones’ is the translation. 

Sorry to disappoint … geitjes is little goats … geietjes is total nonsense in dutch (at least my dutch) 😉

Someone needs to tell Google.

 Agreed 

rsirian1

Someone needs to tell Google.

This is not the first stupidness from Google, and I am afraid not the lest one too.

yvon

rsirian1

Someone needs to tell Google.

This is not the first stupidness from Google, and I am afraid not the lest one too.

Exactly why I said what I said.

BramVB

I´m thinking geietjes … a costly typo … 

this.