Help Needed To Identify A Coin (Id: Counterfeit UK Crown)

Hello Ioana and

A genuine 1889 Queen Victoria crown should be made of 92.5% pure silver, have a diameter of 39mm and weigh 28.3 grams.

If yours is genuine, then it would be worth just the silver melt value in this condition.

Your coin looks to me like a cast base metal counterfeit, probably made to be passed off as a genuine crown in circulation. Whoever received it may have deliberately mutilated it to prevent it from being spent.

You can do a 'silver test' to see if a coin contains silver -
http://goccf.com/t/10649

Here is my genuine 1891 crown for comparison.

The hole drilled through the middle of it was also a standard mutilation: shopkeepers would nail counterfeits to the walls and posts of their shop, as a reminder to themselves and their staff to be on the lookout for more such coins.

Thank you!