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Very Old And Small Coin. Chariot On Front.

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 Posted 02/27/2018  02:08 am  Show Profile   Check spru's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add spru to your friends list
I am thinking older than that. What I had in mind is the young portrait. That puts it before 1860. I really dont know much in this area, though. Here is your last pic, turned upside down:

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 Posted 02/27/2018  02:15 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Zekul to your friends list
Awesome, ya the older the cooler. Hard to see through pictures any details that might be seen in better lighting. Would cleaning it be possible and helpful or detrimental
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 Posted 02/27/2018  05:44 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add peter1234 to your friends list
It is bun 1d or 1/2d dated between 1860 - 94.
The 1d will be 30.81mm dia or the 1/2d 26mm dia.
Cleaning won't help.
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 Posted 02/27/2018  2:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tdziemia to your friends list
The title mentioned the coin was small?

Could an Ionian Islands lepton be a possibility?

Still of no value in that condition, but a least a bit more exotic!
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 Posted 02/27/2018  2:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Zekul to your friends list
1.5 cm
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 Posted 02/27/2018  2:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Zekul to your friends list
That back seems to me to lend itself more so to the markings
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 Posted 02/27/2018  2:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TheCoinDom to your friends list

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1.5 cm


That's a bit too small for a farthing (which is the smallest British coin with the Britannia design)... Maybe it's not a British coin, but a coin from another place in the British Empire. Ionian Islands, like tdziemia said, is a possibility.
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 Posted 02/27/2018  2:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tdziemia to your friends list
The size fits. If you rotate your photo of the reverse clockwise by a bit less than 90 degrees it looks like the reverse of the coin I posted, so I think you now have an answer.
Your coin was made between 1834 an 1862. If I look at the reverse of your coin around 4:00 I think I can see at least the 8 in the date,
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Awesome, very interesting. And cool to have a piece from somewhere cool
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 Posted 02/27/2018  5:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add twinkinator to your friends list
Great eye, tdziemia! I'm not familiar with those coins so I never would have guessed that. The reverse seemed a little off so that may explain why it wasn't for the UK itself.
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 Posted 02/27/2018  6:32 pm  Show Profile   Check spru's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add spru to your friends list
I believe the mystery is solved.
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 Posted 02/28/2018  5:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Petrus to your friends list
Looks like a lady in a wheelchair....
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 Posted 03/04/2018  09:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tdziemia to your friends list
I was wondering why someplace in Greece had coins that made it look like part of the British Commonwealth, so I did a bit of digging, and here is the thumbnail history for the Ionian Islands, a group of 7 islands that lie off the NW coast of Greece, of which Corfu is the best known.

Historically the islands were Greek, then part of the Roman and Byzantine empires (nothing out of the ordinary yet), but as the Byzantine empire weakened in the 13th century, the ascending Venetian Republic took control of the islands, as they were useful way stations for the Venetians' Mediterranean trade routes.
They remained under Venetian control (despite attempts by the Ottoman Empire, which had taken Greece in the 1450s), until the Venetian Republic was conquered by Napoleon in 1797. In 1809-10, the British won naval battles over Napoleon in the Ionian Islands, and in the 1815 Peace of Paris, the British retained control of the islands as a protectorate (mainland Greece was still part of the Ottoman empire).
Greece obtained its independence form the Ottoman empire in 1830. And in 1864, Britain returned the islands to Greece.

From a modern numismatic viewpoint, there are some very rare counterstamped issues from the 18th century (KM20-25, 30, 50 and 60 paras counterstamped on Spain, Naples & Sicily issues), and the issues iunder the British protectorate (dated between 1819-1862), of which the 1 Lepton piece is the most common.
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