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Title: id please doc Post by: ROMAN STEVE on February 21, 2010, 08:10:43 PM found a new farm today talking to the farmer he brought these coins out to show us what he has been finding in his field and he wanted them id so i took a couple of pics of them they are thicker than a pound coin are they tokens?
Title: Re: id please doc Post by: The Doc on February 21, 2010, 08:37:47 PM The first one is an unusual threepence token from the Birmingham workhouse, see here:
http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=790639&AucID=583&Lot=849 (http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=790639&AucID=583&Lot=849) It looks like it's been reused for advertising or just practicing stamping the name "CROOSE HEREFORD". If you Google the name, you will find a number of Crooses in the Hereford area. Title: Re: id please doc Post by: The Doc on February 21, 2010, 08:38:48 PM And the second one a medallion issued to mark the death of Prince Albert.
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