Internment Coins

Thanks penny dreaful, the gentleman who gave me these coins quoted"these might not be worth anything but to me they mean a heck of alot!"

Thats it mate I won't be selling them for a long time :)

No he didn't actually I have got him some choccies and am pretty sure he is coming back into this work.
I shall ask him then :)

Trout, you got my hackles up because you linked the Boer War camps and the Australian camps to the German concentration camps. Kitchener was the guy who came up with the idea of the camps (in effect you linked my families good name to the Nazi death camps).
The internments in Australia were not done on race but on nationality, it wasn't the nicest solution but at the time it was easier to round them up based on their nationality and then assess them. Remember it was wartime and some of the things that were done could have been handled better if they had more time and resources. At one stage such was the fear and urgency they were enlisting boys and sending them into combat with only a few days training (I have an elderly friend who came straight of the farm down to Sydney, helped boil the thick grease off WW1 rifles and a few days later was sent off to fight, he became a combat veteran about 3 months past his 15th birthday fighting behind enemy lines). Bottom line is that the internees had it not so bad compared to the locals (they couldn't be drafted for one thing so many ended up finding work on farms when the locals were sent off to war).

Interesting thread and tokens, you should treat the old man who gave you these :)

I fell the most shocking thing said in this whole thread was "I didn't learn history at school." Everyone should know history, some countries re-write it or suppress it for political reasons but everyone should know the full details of WW2, it is not ancient history and we are not so far from it occuring again if everyone is ignorant about it.

As for the politics of internment camps, well some terrible things happened in the war. It brought out both the best and the worst of human nature. Let me recommend a book to read; The man who broke into Auschwitz. If you are not moved and inspired by the end of that book then you are not human.

I hope I'm not breaking forum protocol by reviving a really old thread, but I would rather reuse a thread than create a new one.

I was digging through a random collection of coins from auction and came across a Hay internment camp one penny coin in rather good condition. I'm always suspicious when a pretty valuable coin in great condition is found like this, so wanted to know if people here think it's genuine. I don't know if any modern repros were made for tourists, etc.

The holder is just marked 'EF'.





According to this page there's a maximum of 40,473 one penny coins.

https://www.sterlingcurrency.com.au...nment-token/

I have a similar Coin so looks genuine to me but you really need a specialist collector/dealer to verify.
Easiest method is to send it off to get graded,PCGS is probably best, added value will cover the cost.

Yes,i think that's the best course of action with all the copies/fakes around these days.Will probably double its resale value.

PCGS is slow at the moment for us Aussies,my last lot via Imperial Coins in Brisbane took over 3 Months.