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BethLiam1 New Member United Kingdom 3 Posts	Posted 07/24/2014 4:29 pm Can someone give me any background on the attached photos. The coin is larger than any cartwheel coin that I have seen, I have attached a photo alongside a £1.00 coin an a fifty pence piece for width comparison. The hole in the centre is for? Thank you for taking the time to peruse my topic. David. Report this Post to the Staff

peter1234 Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1351 Posts	Posted 07/24/2014 5:47 pm It doesn't look any bigger than a butchered 1d. These coins were often worked on.Basically worth its weight in copper which is now less than 1oz Report this Post to the Staff
BillSnyder Pillar of the Community 778 Posts	Posted 07/24/2014 8:38 pm An interesting piece. Mutilated, of course, but why shape the edge like that? Might it have been to be used as some kind of pulley? Bill Report this Post to the Staff
alganbagerap Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2490 Posts	Posted 07/25/2014 08:21 am My very first thought on seeing it was Meccano. Trusting to memory over a period of sixty years, it seems to be exactly like the pulley wheels on my childhood construction set. Report this Post to the Staff
Anaximander Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 709 Posts	Posted 07/25/2014 10:00 am There is a preserved windmill not too far from me, which has one of these coins as part of its display. The coin was placed as a bearing underneath a wooden vertical axle and worn partly out of shape. I assume that the reason the coin was used was because it was a cheap source of soft metal to be used in this way. Report this Post to the Staff
DVCollector Bedrock of the Community United States 10045 Posts	Posted 07/25/2014 11:11 am That one appears to be literally fashioned into a wheel! I've also heard these cartwheels were often used as weights for scales in trade. Report this Post to the Staff
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