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That’s a nice rarity. Regardless of ‘value’, having a true rarity can be a collector’s desire.

 

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That obverse design is phenomenal! Where we these struck?

 

Not sure. Krause lists Brussels, London, Philadelphia, and Waterbury as mints used by Peru without mint marks. Based on the look of the coin, I'd guess Philadelphia, which is also where some earlier dated business strikes were struck.

 

This was kind of an impulse purchase. First of these I have seen, although I wasn't looking for one either. Sellers photo and description.



British Administration "Utrecht Imitative" 2 Stuivers 1786-Dated MS62 NGC, Birmingham mint, Prid-11. Plain border. These merchant tokens, imitating Utrecht silver 2 Stuiver (cf. KM112) emissions were struck at the Soho mint in debased silver from 1834-1836 and introduced by Singaporean merchants. They circulated for nearly 10 years before being suppressed in 1844.

 

Republic of Venice Gold 1/2 Scudo d'oro of Andrea Gritti (minted in Venice sometime between 1523 and 1538):

 

Republic of Armenia Silver 25 Dram (commemorating the Temple of Garni) from 1994:

 

Religious medal or token, Hindu, left hand image showing Lakshmi and Ganesh.

 

I bought a book which led to the purchase of the coin yesterday.
Because of the dearth of copper and bronze coins minted during the reign of George III , merchants and manufacturers produced tokens that now are generically named "Conder Tokens". One of the most recognisable is the "Druid penny" manufactured from copper mined on the island of Anglesey in North Wales where the Druids took their last stance against the occupying roman army.
This is the book.


And this is the coin.




Edge legend reads "payable on demand in London, Liverpool and Anglesey".
i haven't researched this yet but I guess this big lump of copper was actually worth one penny in 1787.

 

Hi @Dafydd
None of your pics are showing. Have you included links rather uploaded the photo itself?

 

Hi @PaddyB Not sure what I did , I thought I had pasted images , thank you for highlighting this. I will have another go at editing.

 

Here's a few I got recently. The Polish John Paul II coin is in both regular and proof.

 

Yes @Dafydd working fine now.

 

I just got these three last week at my LCS.

 

A few years ago I had a stall selling coins and tokens at a market. A young woman came by and showed particular interest in one of my Anglesey tokens as she was from that Island. The sale was almost complete when I chose to tell her more about it. As soon as I mentioned "Druid's head" she threw a wobbly and aborted the sale - because Druids were pagan and she was a devout Christian and could not tolerate a pagan symbol in her house!

 

Ionian Bronze Homereion (minted in Smyrna in either the 2nd or 1st century BCE):

 

1775, Recoining of Deficient Gold Coinage, by J. Kirk.



German Auction Description in English
George III, 1760-1820. Bronze medal 1775 29.36 g. Gold Recoinage. Stamp by J. Kirk. Bust to the right. Rev. Seated Britannia with scales and cornucopia. 41.5 mm. Bucket 762. Brown 202. Later restrike.

 

Dutch Gold 7 Gulden (minted in Dordrecht in 1749):

 

Ottoman Gold Cedid Mahmudiye of Mahmud II (minted in Constantinople sometime between 1808 and 1813):

 

Kingdom of Sicily Gold multiple Tari of Roger II (minted sometime between 1130 and 1154):