Georgivs V With No Date. Can Any Body Identify This?

It looks like a knock off of a British Sovereign. Probably gold coloured or plated

Agree, a fake.



to the CCF!

Color suggests thin gold plated brass.
What is the weight and diameter?

The design is crude enough that I think it was probably not intended to "fool" anyone into believing it was a real sovereign. Did your father come from Greece or spend time in Greece? Because I think it may be a "vasilopita" coin.

In Greece, on St Basil's Day (New Years Day, January 1), they have a tradition of making a special kind of cake - the vasilopita - for the family and guests to celebrate the new year. Traditionally, a gold coin (often a British gold sovereign, as Greece made very few gold coins of its own) would be hidden in the cake, which the lucky recipient would get to keep; with genuine gold coins kind of rare and expensive nowadays, they hide a base-metal token in the cake instead, and give a gift of money to the token-finder. These vasilopita coins often have a design imitating to the gold sovereign coins they used to originally use in the cakes. I have seen several such pieces where the Latin inscription from the original sovereign is replaced with a Greek inscription wishing you a happy new year.

It's not entirely unlike the old English tradition of hiding a threepence or sixpence in the Christmas pudding.

The weight is 3.9 G and the length is about 24 cm. I don't know if he was ever in Greece maybe he passed through there during WWII. Again Thank you all for the welcome.