unidentified gold Churchill & low mintage Italian

Hi there,
A friend and I picked up these two coins at a bargain price. We' had them for a while now and have been unable to find out any more about them. If anyone knows of any keywords that might help me research that would be much appreciated.


The Gold Churchill coin is .900 gold and weighs 1/2oz
The Silver Churchill is about 3/4oz and apparentally 1000 (seems a unusual purity grade)
The Italian coin is .900 Gold and quite small, probably around 4 or 5 grams

 

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Your pictures are really pretty poor, but there were quite a few Churchill commemoratives. None of these items are coins. For comparables seach for Churchill or Papal medallions.

 

I agree, my friends pictures are bad.
With your search terms I uncovered this. We found this last time too!
http://churchill-collector.com/gold-churchill-memorial-medals-1965-set-5/

 

Looks like the Queen.

 

cool pair

 

haha

yeah, not bad i agree

 

The piece featuring pope John XXIII seems to be a medal too. Does it have a reverse?

 

I managed to get my friend to take a pic, but where is the image upload button when replying?!?!

 

Next to post reply, it says upload a file. Lower right.

 

thanks for pointing that out.

 

Yes, that is a medal - and apparently it was issued shortly after the death of Pope John XXIII. The years in Roman numerals refer to when he was born (1881) and died (1963). Not sure about this one, but usually such "third party" medals honoring popes do not have numismatic value that exceeds the metal value. Still a nice piece.

Christian

 

It appears to have gold control marks on the reverse.

 

All good info to know. thanks for your input.

 

Alfred Hitchcock?

 

The medal with Pope John XXIII, is a private issue, not official from Vatican City, his value is only gold...but it's a nice medal

petronius