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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 106869, member: 283&quot;]OK.....found the leaflet, which is quite informative concerning how coinage was made way back then. It unfortunately tells me nothing about the coin in hand though. </p><p><br /></p><p>I weighed the piece, and it comes in at 1.8 gms. It&#039;s very thin and looking at it again, it looks more silver than it does anything else. That&#039;s about as much as i can tell without practising some alchemy on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an example from the guy in Canada I mentioned. He produced dies, and flans and hand struck a small number of these for participants in the newsgroup forum rec.collecting.coins. It&#039;s crude, but i think it&#039;s also pretty neat given that I can appreciate exactly how much work went into making it, from melting down old silver to create the flans with / making dies/ and striking the coins (a very dangerous activity by all accounts). These pieces were 92.5% silver and weighed in at 4.5 grams (+/- 5 per cent).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.imb4u2.myby.co.uk/stuff/spark1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.imb4u2/myby.co.uk/stuff/spark1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.imb4u2.myby.co.uk/stuff/spark2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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