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tumbleweedtrumpet Pillar of the Community United States 1418 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 4:12 pm http://cgi.ebay.com/COLONIAL-GOLD-P...LS_W0QQitemZ 200431364778QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCoins_US_Individual?hash=item2eaaa3eaaa#ht_500wt_1182 Report this Post to the Staff

maudry Pillar of the Community Luxembourg 588 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 4:46 pm I may be wrong, but I believe it is brass and it should be some kind of casino token. Report this Post to the Staff
dollarcoins Valued Member United States 220 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 4:59 pm Here is another one sold in the Australia ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...250524352931 Report this Post to the Staff
turtleoverhead Pillar of the Community Australia 585 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 5:23 pm Yes, it's a brass game token and the first seller probably guild plated it himself. Report this Post to the Staff
Archraz Pillar of the Community United States 3499 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 5:33 pm I have always thought that these were interesting tokens, thought I realize that there are tons of them out there. Report this Post to the Staff
alganbagerap Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2490 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 6:56 pm How do you want to buy yours? By the lb or the dozen? I've pulled at least thirty out of my odds & ends box in the last five minutes. You'll have to wait for the gold paint to dry................ Report this Post to the Staff
tumbleweedtrumpet Pillar of the Community United States 1418 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 8:43 pm Are they actually from the year on them? Report this Post to the Staff
Archraz Pillar of the Community United States 3499 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 8:57 pm tumbleweedtrumpet- Some of them are from around the late 18th century, but many are actually from the early to mid- 19th century. Hence how some of them say "In Memory of the Good Old Days" on the reverse. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16829 Posts	Posted 01/23/2010 11:27 pm It's a card game counter, as others have said. They're imitating the British gold coin known as a "guinea". This particular one has the obverse more or less correct, but the reverse legend is a jumbled mess - a mess which I believe encode the identity of the company that made it: "C.W.B. ET CO" for "CWB & Co." and "B.I.R.M." for Birmingham. Genuine gold guineas look like this. They usually were produced with a gilded finish. They were never, of course, made of solid gold. Companies could face severe penalties for manufacturing "evasions", imitation coins that too closely resembled the real ones, so they tended to not make their names too obvious for the king's men to decipher. 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
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