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Title: Need id please Post by: Gadget(Ian) on June 03, 2009, 10:14:19 AM Hi doc i think i got a challenge for you this time. Can you id this coin i found with tafflaff on sunday morning its not in very good condition and is made of copper there seems to be brittania on one side and the other looks like a portrait of maybe charles 1st or maybe somebody from a church Commemorative coin maybe?
Title: Re: Need id please Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on June 03, 2009, 11:06:05 AM Thats how it come up Ian? Strange that one!
Title: Re: Need id please Post by: Gadget(Ian) on June 03, 2009, 11:18:15 AM yes rob its always worth cleaning the coins when you get home sometimes you will be shocked by what you have found.
Title: Re: Need id please Post by: JohnF on June 03, 2009, 12:24:44 PM I think what you have there Ian is an 18th century halfpenny token, I found one recently with a very similar portrait, it was a Lancaster Halfpenny from the late 1700s,
Try this link for i'ding tokens. Theres plenty to search through but its a good site for identifying token, you will need to be patient with it cos the pages are a bit slow to download. http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/search/cataloguesummary.html?_searchstring_=AG='cm'%20and%20(OB='18th-century%20tokens (http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/search/cataloguesummary.html?_searchstring_=AG='cm'%20and%20(OB='18th-century%20tokens)*'%20when%20OT='subseries')&_function_=xslt&_limit_=25&_resultstylesheet_=imagecs Hope this helps. John. Title: Re: Need id please Post by: ROMAN STEVE on June 03, 2009, 04:05:42 PM Nice find i think its jesus ;D
Title: Re: Need id please Post by: The Doc on June 03, 2009, 10:15:29 PM I'm struggling on this one Ian. Like JohnF said, the portrait looks like that of John of Gaunt on the Lancaster halfpenny, but the Britannia reverse doesn't fit.
Title: Re: Need id please Post by: Gadget(Ian) on June 05, 2009, 07:22:52 PM cheers guys i still cannot id this as peter said the britania does not fit with anything i can compare to.
Title: Re: Need id please Post by: Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan ) on June 05, 2009, 07:41:41 PM It Certainly looks like Charles the 1st, but did he have any copper coins then ???
take it in for Mark Lodwick to show to Edward Beasley Ian, he'll get it for you. Alan Title: Re: Need id please Post by: The Doc on June 18, 2009, 09:58:33 PM While looking for something else, I've just found what this is - Welsh all the time :-[
Title: Re: Need id please Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on June 18, 2009, 10:02:49 PM Awwwwwwww cracking id there Peter. Are you always switched on? You must dream about Bronze grots!...lol
Title: Re: Need id please Post by: hedgehog on June 19, 2009, 09:11:08 AM Peter I don't know what to say other than you've done it again, plucked it from the brink of obscurity and turned it into an interesting historical coin :o
Title: Re: Need id please Post by: mel on June 19, 2009, 09:33:30 AM i found one like that to a few years ago to.
i coudnt get it ID. it would be nice to know after all this time Title: Re: Need id please Post by: Gadget(Ian) on June 19, 2009, 01:26:15 PM well done peter i knew it wouldnt beat you.thank you very much mate cracking bit of detective work
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