German "Ausweis" (Work Permit for the Occupied Channel Islands)

I bought one of these at a coin club meeting last night, billed as a Vichy French work permit for construction workers who built the fortifications on the Channel islands during WW2:

 

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It's a uniface medal, appears to be pewter. Fairly large (small belt buckle size).

Unfortunately, as I did further research, it appears that these may have never been issued and were made as fantasy reproductions in the 1970's:
https://sites.google.com/site/malstokens/c-i

 

I didn't bid an excessively high amount for it, but I was a bit disappointed to find out that it is unlikely to be genuine.

How much would you estimate the value at?

 

What someone will pay for it

 

Of course. But, I'm wondering what others on the board would peg the value at. There's not a lot of auction records to scan for comparison.

 

Modern Fantasy Piece.

The document was paper... as this isn't paper, it is a fantasy piece.

 

When advertised as fantasy pieces these sell for a buck or two. Do an Ebay search for completed listings for Channel Island tokens.

 

Back when I was a teenager I bought a couple of those Channel Islands tokens thinking they were real, something like "Soldatenheim St. Brelades" or something. Years later I found out from someone coincidentally in Jersey, that these things were made by some company in California or somewhere ca. 1974-5 and for awhile they were slowly releasing them as the real thing - even went to the extent of artificially aging them etc.

 

I wasn't trying to be a smart ass but when it is a fantasy peice with no historical value, no real artistic merit, on cheap metal...asking the value is truly a simple matter of how much someone will fork over for it...knowing what it is I would hope. Any attempt to value it is just complete conjecture but shoudn't be more than a few bucks at most.

 

There are people that collect them purely for the fantasy nature of them, but the value is pretty nominal.