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Valued Member
Australia
165 Posts |
Hi, I have had this in my collection and need some help I have had a dealer look at it long time ago and they did not know what it was. one side has the pattern on it and the other side is blank and flat. Scanner is playing up so this is a photo can you identify it?   |
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Valued Member
Australia
64 Posts |
Hi Mate, What is the diameter of the token and do you know what it is made from?
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Valued Member
 Australia
165 Posts |
Well I can tell you it is the exact same size as a sixpence same diameter and thickness but I do not know what it is made out of. Also I was thinking it could be a test piece for the sixpence for the front design.
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New Member
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could this be a token of some sort from the machines that stamp coins into tourist coins of sort. I was at the cliffs of Moher in Ireland and they had a machine which stamped a normal 1p into an oval shape with the cliffs of Moher on one side and something else on the other. I just found out they were called penny smashers.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
2180 Posts |
I think the new sixpence design which was never implemented looked like this:  How long have you had it? |
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Valued Member
Australia
165 Posts |
Well it has been apart of the family collection for a very long time as it has just been added along the line I think one of the family was into coins and this is why I have so many coins
I am not sure who or where my family got it but I will ask them tonight.
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Valued Member
Australia
165 Posts |
Enworb would you be able to help here.
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Moderator
 Australia
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It's definitely not a pattern of an Australian coin - an Australian coin would have the Australian coat of arms, not the coat of arms of the city of Sydney. It might be anything - a badge, a piece of a keychain, intended for insertion into a book or piece of furniture - without any indication of maker, it would be impossible to determine an intended purpose or even an approximate date - except that it's newer than 1908 when this coat of arms was designed, and older than 1996, when this coat of arms was replaced by the current version. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
Australia
165 Posts |
Well I requested information from the NSW State Libary and they said they found nothing within there collection of over 5000 tokens and this was also searched within the collection from Andrews Arthur, they also looked through the powerhouse museum archive but did not turn up anything. I might ask renniks but they suggested that I contact powerhouse myself.
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