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<p>[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 643417, member: 4703"]Round pieces of metal with a design on one or both sides may be coins, tokens, medals or medallions. <ul> <li>"Coins" are government-issued pieces of money, spendable as such in the issuing country or region.</li> <li>"Tokens" are items intended to be used in lieu of money in a limited venue, such as a subway line, a single company's public telephones, or a merchant's store. They are usually non-governmental issues, but sometimes a public transportation agency issues tokens.</li> <li>"Medals" and "Medallions" can be government or non-government issues commemorating a person or an event, which can not be used to buy anything (but of course could be used in a barter transaction, which is not the same thing).</li> </ul><p></p><p>You most probably have a medal/medallion, you may have a token, but you DO NOT have a coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>The original poster apparently has two similar, but different, medals honoring George Washington. One is probably from the Shell series, but I don't know whether that series had two varieties, or some other company made a similar one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 643417, member: 4703"]Round pieces of metal with a design on one or both sides may be coins, tokens, medals or medallions.[list]"Coins" are government-issued pieces of money, spendable as such in the issuing country or region.[*]"Tokens" are items intended to be used in lieu of money in a limited venue, such as a subway line, a single company's public telephones, or a merchant's store. They are usually non-governmental issues, but sometimes a public transportation agency issues tokens.[*]"Medals" and "Medallions" can be government or non-government issues commemorating a person or an event, which can not be used to buy anything (but of course could be used in a barter transaction, which is not the same thing).[/list] You most probably have a medal/medallion, you may have a token, but you DO NOT have a coin! The original poster apparently has two similar, but different, medals honoring George Washington. One is probably from the Shell series, but I don't know whether that series had two varieties, or some other company made a similar one.[/QUOTE]
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