Hi All, I recently found this coin on the beach and have no idea what it is. I assume it's probably something very common but I've struggled to locate anything on the internet. It's rather beaten up and quite corroded. Apologies for wasting time if it's something g basic. I'm just curious!
It's a 2 1/2 p gaming token formerly used in gaming / one-arm-bandit machines in Britain. They're made of brass. They replaced the old 6d gaming tokens but were the same size and weight. I sold several in 2018 at 25p each.
As Pertinax has said it is a gaming machine token. You don't show the other side but it will be for 6D with the company name on it. The fact it has both the pre- and post- decimal values on it would suggest it was issued late 1960s to early 1970s.
Sometime after decimalisation the Decimal Currency bit was dropped and replaced by the company name on both sides.
Eventually the pre-decimal denomination was dropped altogether.
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