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New Member
South Africa
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Can anyone tell me what coin this is and what the value of it is? I cannot find the exact coin on the net because there are differences e.g. the leafs on his head and the ribbon in his hear and the way the ripples "hear" is at his shoulders. Regardas Tiaan   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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Hello Tiaan and welcome to the Forum!  This is not an official coin. It would appear to be a gaming counter in the style of a George III spade guinea. There are lots of different varieties of these. |
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New Member
 South Africa
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Thank you
But what do you mean with a gaming counter?
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
709 Posts |
A gaming counter would have been used for card games, similar to poker chips today. I have a number of these. Later 19th century ones often had advertising on them.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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These are made of brass and come in all shapes and sizes. Yours bears the legend "In memory of the good old days" which makes it most probably early 20th century. They sell for pennies rather than pounds.
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New Member
South Africa
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Hi guys, thanks for the input on my coin.
Would this coin only be from the 20th century although it have a date of 1786 on it?
Its a bit of a disappointment, that this is not the real thing!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I own several dozen varieties of these. They were also used in counting houses to represent actual money.
The oldest date to the same period of time that the sovereigns and half sovereigns were made. The most recent date to the 1960s or later. I am not aware of anyone making them today but it is very possible.
There is a WIDE range of value among specialists.
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New Member
South Africa
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Hallo
So this gaming couter could have some value?
I am farly new in the coin collection, how do I get someone to estimate the value of this counter?
Kind Regards
Tiaan
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 Australia
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It is difficult to value such pieces. Because they aren't real coins, they aren't listed in the mainstream coin catalogues. Anonymous later pieces such as this tend not to attract too much value. The earlier pieces which encode the name of the maker in the inscriptions tend to be more highly sought after, but none to my knowledge are really valuable. They're made of brass, not gold, so there's no bullion value to account for.
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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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sap - "Really valuable" is relative in this instance - for tokens the "In Memory of the Good Old Days" group are low end in the $1-5 range depending on type but many of the older types with advertising sell well above $25 with a couple that I have seen going over $100. I know there are specialists and someplace I have a reference that covers the rarer types but they are base metal tokens and not coins as you point out.
I think that is more in line with the question Tiaan is asking.
His coin is in the $1 range a crude recent third generation issue.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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The British Numismatic Society make their online archives freely available to all. Google " CATALOGUE OF THE
ADVERTISEMENT IMITATIONS OF'SPADE' GUINEAS AND THEIR HALVES" and you should find a very explanatory article and some subsequent supplements. All for free.  |
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United States
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