The only info I have found regarding this is on a fakes list...I cant find anything else about it. Is this some kind of fake? any information about this would be very helpful. Thanks
It is certainly no coin, but a publicity token: Sainsbury's is a warehouse in Great-Britain. Obverse and reverse are copied from a British guinea KM#609, with the effigy of George III.
Yes, I know it is a copy of a guinea...to be more specific, should I say that this is not a contemporary token minted in and around 1798 but a more modern token.
Drusus,it is a very modern token.I have seen similar ones advertising MacNiven's pens.Most of them use the original Guinea design,& are regarded as card counters. Aidan.
Maybe not the late 1700's but very likely the early 1800's. This is an imitation Spade guinea token and a great many of them were produced in the early 1800's as gaming counters and advrtising pieces. There is a catalog of them written, A Thousand Guineas, by W. Bryce Neilson (2003). It catalogs over a thousand different varieties, but from what I understand it is not well illustrated. A review can be found here http://users.pullman.com/fjstevens/tokens/reviewlist.html Another book is "A Catalogue of Advertising Imitation Spade Guineas and Half Guineas" by David Magnay published in 1997.
A poster on another forum came through with the infomation on this token: seems it is probably from 1882 to 1913...
Nice piece, I do like the advertising tokens and the newspaper clipping is a great read as well :thumb: De Orc
