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 Posted 08/19/2007  5:47 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Biscuit to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
This is on ebay. It is supposedly from a grandmother's estate.

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8.71 KBI don't know the coin. Repro? Gold? Would appreciate any help.

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 Posted 08/19/2007  5:55 pm  Show Profile   Check GO's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GO to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not a coin I don't think. It looks to be just a small token medallion.
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 Posted 08/19/2007  8:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Peter THOMAS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
G'day, the pic doesn't have much detail.
The shape of the portrait reminds me of QE2, first type (1952~ ), and she's facing in the correct direction.
The material could be gold or brass, judging solely by colour.
Size would help to determine if it's a coin, and which denomination.
There are no Australian coins of that colour, during the period in which that portrait was used (upto 1964)
The poms had a brass threepence, but I don't think that the planchet was circular.
The Poms and Rhodesians created gold coins with that portrait.
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 Posted 08/19/2007  8:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
If you can take a large picture of both sides of the item and gives us an idea of the size we might be able to help ID it.
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 Posted 08/20/2007  02:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I don't think it's modern coin. It does look sort-of like the early, Mary Gillick portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, but the base of the bust goes all the way down to the rim of the coin - that's not normal.

To me, it sort of looks like an ancient Roman coin, but who or what is impossible to say. I certainly can't read the legend. Why do some ebay sellers have to have such tiny, "looking through a telescope the wrong way" pictures of coins?
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