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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 4172483, member: 86815&quot;]I would tend to agree with Bradley, probably holed to be used as a button or badge because the holes are crude and no precision engineering shop such as the Royal Mint would do that as they would have proper drills or punches. The imperative to deface the coin is that the death penalty for forging coins was still a law in Great Britain until 1832. The last person to be hanged for coin forgery was Thomas Maynard on 31st December 1829. It would be difficult to prove possession to defraud with those holes in it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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