Posted 08/10/2010 10:21 pm
I'm having a little trouble imagining what "a raised line through the center of the coin and a smaller raised circle in the one half" looks like, but it sounds to me like a description of a mount mark, rather than an intentional design.
I don't think "Victoria Regina" just by itself was ever used on the coinage of Britain or any of the colonies (except for the "godless florin", which is large and silver). At the time, only Britain and the Canadian colonies were using Latin on the coinage; everywhere else used English on the obverse, such as "Victoria Queen" or "Victoria Empress".
There were, however, many medals and tokens made with "Victoria Regina" as the obverse legend. One type in particular fits your description of the metal and size: the "Cumberland Jack" card counter, discussed in this thread. I suspect your item is either one of these tokens that's had the reverse filed down to make a button or cuff link, or perhaps it was made specifically as a cuff link by the manufacturer using the same die as the one used to make the tokens.
I don't think "Victoria Regina" just by itself was ever used on the coinage of Britain or any of the colonies (except for the "godless florin", which is large and silver). At the time, only Britain and the Canadian colonies were using Latin on the coinage; everywhere else used English on the obverse, such as "Victoria Queen" or "Victoria Empress".
There were, however, many medals and tokens made with "Victoria Regina" as the obverse legend. One type in particular fits your description of the metal and size: the "Cumberland Jack" card counter, discussed in this thread. I suspect your item is either one of these tokens that's had the reverse filed down to make a button or cuff link, or perhaps it was made specifically as a cuff link by the manufacturer using the same die as the one used to make the tokens.
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
