I recently found this coin and can not find an exact match online. I noticed all other George II related coins seem to show his left profile. This one shows his right profile. It also appears to say the name "Iohann" on the reverse side, which has the four shields representing the realms of Great Britain. It is about 18 mm in diameter.
Clearer photos would help, but based on what I see it looks like a brass game token. Not a real coin.
Definitely not a token. A friend just called and said it is a Johann Weidinger rechenpfennig? A quick look online verifies it is very very similar to others posted. I know nothing else yet about it.
Better pics through my jeweler's microscope. So...what exactly is a Rechnenpfennig. My understanding of German implies its a "king's penny"? Was it actual currency? It seems odd for an English king to be on a Germanic coin.
Rechnung =account. Reich =State. It is what is often called a jeton, a form of token. George was also Elector of Hanover. One Man, One Vote, and it was his. The present British Queen would still have a German family name if her Grandfather had not changed the family name in the First World War. Just not the done thing to be even remotely German, don'cha know.
Thanks for the help. I have inherited quite a pile of old coins from my grandfather and will probably be in need of a lot of help. I am a historian, but not a numismatist and have no idea of what I'm dealing with here.
First thing to do is to practice in focus close up pictures. If your camera has a macro setting, usually a little flower symbol, use that. More light always helps as a smaller lens aperture gives more depth of focus. Look at some of the decent coin pictures from other posters and read a few tips on photography threads. A clearly visible image is the way to get quick accurate replies.
That's some sort of jeton. I collect anglo-Hanoverian coins and the coinage of then Brunswick- Luneburg was Pfenning. The only other copper coinage that fell under Hannover was the 1/4 Stüber of Ost Friesisch. I've never seen anything like that and the shields are somewhat odd.
This piece is a so called "rechenpfennig"in English: Counter, made by Johann Weidinger who worked in Nuremberg from 1670 till his death in 1717. He made over 84 jetons mostly for the French and English market. This piece shows for the english king Georg I (174-1727)
