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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hello, and_one, and welcome to the forum.
I'll try to address the first "coin" and leave the "two-bone" token for someone else.
What I see through the fog of the pictures looks like the half sovereign design with the appropriate legend. Why don't you check the diameter, it should be 19 mm. But I actually do not expect it to be necessarily that because I do not believe it's a real half sovereign.
First of all the halves were gold, your piece doesn't look gold.
Second, more important, no half sovereigns were minted in 1819 - they skipped a year. Which makes me think that nobody did intend to fool anybody with it.
Oftentimes card counters were made in the image of high value coins, but those are usually cruder than the originals.
To say more about your artifact people would need to see a clearer picture of it.
Good luck with your quest!
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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G'day & welcome,
clearer pics would be a great help; also dimensions - diameter & weight.
1819 - looks like a half-crown, which is silver and has a diameter of 32 mm and a weight of 14.1 g - please check.
but it could be a silling: weigh about 5.7 g and have a diameter of 24 mm; or
a sixpence: weight 2.8g and diameter 19mm;
- the designs were similar.
can't help with the other one.
Peter in Oz
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United Kingdom
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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OK, now I believe I see a Garter around the shield. I agree with Peter and alganbagerap that most likely it is a halfcrown (that explains the date).
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Valued Member
Canada
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The coin- definately silver coin designs- 6 pence, Shilling, half-crown, crown.
My thoughts on first seeing the other- figure on the right slanted- a 1 in Western numbers, the horizontal- a 1 in Chinese/Japanese script- some sort of a counter or identification piece- a token type of issue, not a coin.
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My first impression on the second object, is a button.  I suspect that whatever it is, it's not a coin, token or anything numismatic. I assume the other side is either blank or identical to the first side? 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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Th 1st item is the same as alganbagerap has sold Thanks :-)
the 2nd item, well don't think its a button to be honest, its solid no holes in it at all and yes it is blank on the other side, jst thought I would see if any of you guys knew. long shot I know Thanks for all the help so far.
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