Help With A George V Penny ?

Hi..I can't take a decent photo of the edge but it's perfect and like it's been punched from a penny maybe?

I wondered if possibly it was a wrong flan..its pretty much same size as a farthing..

I'm seeing a considerable degree of wear. If it were a genuine "mint error", i.e. a penny struck on a halfpenny planchet, I can't understand how it could have acquired that much wear from circulation. It looks so odd and different from a normal penny or halfpenny, someone would have put it aside, or a bank spotted it and withdrawn it.

So I'm guessing that it was once a perfectly normal penny, that someone has (for whatever reason) decided to grind down to a smaller size. Maybe they wanted a nice portrait of George V to insert in the head of their souvenir teaspoon, or something. Or it may have come from a piece of "trench-art" (bored soldiers making souvenirs from coins).




The date would have been beneath the exergue line on the reverse. The entire exergue line is missing from this piece, so it's impossible to give it a date.