Lead PEIce Coin Or Medal Or ? No Idea

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cheri New Member Australia 32 Posts	Posted 12/03/2013 9:36 pm hi all found this in this tin in a very old wardrobe could it be coin related or is it medal relate or is it ? as I have no idea its lead weight is 6.2 grams size is 36.95mm nothing on the back I can see a lion and a eagle on it Report this Post to the Staff

rooneydog Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 739 Posts	Posted 12/04/2013 2:56 pm Wondering if it started life something like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-ANTIQU...em2c7467eb06 Report this Post to the Staff
cheri New Member Australia 32 Posts	Posted 12/04/2013 4:48 pm rooneydog the crown look very close but the rest is far of I think the lion I have seen on a service medal but its faceing the other way and it has it paw on the eagles head like a medal Report this Post to the Staff
philadelphian Pillar of the Community United States 3253 Posts	Posted 12/04/2013 4:54 pm Without a two-stage process, I was wondering how this image could be transferred to a lead sheet without the text being in mirror image. Then I happened upon this copper stamp, which was used to label items as (presumably unofficial) "souvenirs" of the coronation. The image is exactly the same, though the word "souvenir" has been removed from cheri's lead disc: http://pages.timewasantiques.net/88...3714802.html Edited by philadelphian 12/04/2013 5:16 pm Report this Post to the Staff
cheri New Member Australia 32 Posts	Posted 12/04/2013 5:22 pm that look like the top and I think its a service medal under somehow. Does any one no who made the 1939 to 1945 service medal, with the large lion on it, was it a mint or a company? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16829 Posts	Posted 12/07/2013 06:13 am British war medals were and still are made only at The Royal Mint, I believe. I don't know if any of the Branch mints made any. I agree with Philadelphian (good find there, phil!) that it is a blank lead disc which someone has impressed this stamp (from which "souvenir" was apparently removed or covered up). I would also agree that the lion-trampling-on-eagle design is the same as that on the 1939-45 British War Medal. However, the medal design is backwards-and-incuse (including the "39" and "45" from the dates on the medal), implying that one of these medals has itself been used as a die to stamp the design onto this piece of lead. Conclusion: it's a privately-made "medal", using both one of those stamps and a War Medal for the dies. It was not made by any mint or in any sense "official". 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 Report this Post to the Staff
shanew Pillar of the Community Australia 1041 Posts	Posted 12/08/2013 01:42 am yep I agree sap this site has the best detective Report this Post to the Staff
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