What is this?! Confused

So I bought this coin for about $10 over the weekend. I would appreciate if anyone has any info on it. I did several searches and nothing came up. Thanks! Here is a pic:

 

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it looks like a copper slug that someone stamped

 

so nothing of importance? lol..

 

Could you weigh it ? It appears to be a 19th century British colonial half sovereign weight, but I'd need the weight to confirm it.

 

So which is it??

 

I will be weighing it tonight will get back to you by this evening thanks

 

We wont know will we until we get the weight of it LOL but it certainly looks like a 1/2 Sov weight :smile

 

Are they valuable?

 

Seen them go for anything from 0.99p to £50+ all depending on what it was and who wanted it. Not been any sort of expert on them I cant say what yours would be worth if that is what it turns out to be, sorry

 

Terrific as soon as I get home I will weigh it and post it up. Thanks

 

Coin weight 3.9-4.0 grams please advise. Thanks

 

I'm glad that this may be an actual coin.

porkchopbimmer needs a win!

 

Lol yes I do I got this coin from a different person. Also on the reverse of the coin there is a significant misprint with the v and s I will take pics later

 

A "coin weight" is not a coin - it's a chunk of metal with a very close tolerance to the weight of the coin it's designed to verify, so that it can be used on a balance scale.

 

So wait? This isn't an actual coin?

 

You are of course right.

I'm still excited that porkchopbimmer might have a real coin weight!

 

Here is the "coin weight" reverse. It seems to have been mis-stamped on the back with the s and v. Are these worth much of anything? I won't be selling it, just wondering if it has any value?

 

Great Britains half soverign is listed as 3.994 grams.

 

Question? Is coin weight indicative of the coins authenticity?

 

That's the correct weight for a British half sovereign. The piece you have is not a coin, but a coin weight: a piece of base metal used (with scales) to check that precious metal coins were the right weight. As De Orc states, these are collected in their own right: $10 seems a pretty good price for that issue. I'm wondering whether it would be possible to work out where it was made from the central stamp (heraldic lion).