Help Identifying This "sovereign" Token? Coin?

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x86bsd New Member United States 4 Posts	Posted 10/05/2024 10:56 pm Greetings to all! I spent my first day metal detecting out a nearby park trying to learn how to use my new metal detector. I haven't had one since I was like 8. Anyway, I finally started to figure out the tones for coins. I found several US pennies and dimes, and then I found THIS... from appearances it looks like a sovereign, but I see no date, and my eyes are too old to identify a mint mark. Also I am puzzled how it would find it's way to my location if it was one. Regardless I was hoping someone could identify this or at least get me close to an ID? I took the best images I could, which are attached. I could NOT find this coin anywhere in a reverse image search. It has "henry" written on the portrait side with a portrait of a king I assume, wearing a crown. But I could not find an image that matched so clearly my google fu is no good. So if anyone can take a look at the attached images and kindly let me know what I am looking at here, a token? a coin? a date? anything would be helpful. Thank you very much for your time and expertise. Sincerely, Chris Edited by x86bsd 10/05/2024 11:13 pm Report this Post to the Staff

x86bsd New Member United States 4 Posts	Posted 10/05/2024 11:12 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16805 Posts	Posted 10/05/2024 11:14 pm Hello and welcome - You've only got the same picture posted twice. Can we see the other side? In any event, what we can see from this side is (a) it's not actually a sovereign, since it's not actually made of gold and there was no king whose name appeared on British coins as "Henry Rex" (the Latinized version of Henry is "Henricus"). My assumption would be a token of some kind. 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
x86bsd New Member United States 4 Posts	Posted 10/05/2024 11:18 pm Yeah sorry about the dupe image post. It's late and I didn't quite catch how to upload multiple images. Fixed it. Sorry about that. Report this Post to the Staff
HondoB Bedrock of the Community United States 24878 Posts	Posted 10/06/2024 01:34 am to the CCF, x86bsd! What is the diameter of your item? Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures Report this Post to the Staff
Hogarth Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 733 Posts	Posted 10/06/2024 04:47 am I too have not been able to find anything about this online, but one thing is certain: it has no great age and is likely part of some recent fantasy token series or toy money set as I did find photos of another, struck in a silvery coloured metal, which has the denomination 'one crown'. Edited by Hogarth 10/06/2024 11:07 am Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 10/06/2024 11:23 am to the CCF! Report this Post to the Staff
x86bsd New Member United States 4 Posts	Posted 10/06/2024 6:07 pm Thank you for the welcome and the answers! I kind of wish I knew what game this came from :) It might be fun! Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16805 Posts	Posted 10/06/2024 8:57 pm It is impossible to see on this coin, but there's another example in better condition on ebay: https://www.ebay.com.sg/itm/374279137031 In the better picture you can see there's a small "HH" initials below the portrait. This is the mintmark for Hoffman Mint, formerly known as Hoffman & Hoffman and using a HH mintmark. Website: https://hoffmanmint.com/ Stealing the picture off ebay, because the sale is a year old and about to expire: 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
jbuck Moderator United States 187446 Posts	Posted 10/07/2024 09:05 am to the Community! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
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Help Identifying This "Sovereign" Token? Coin?