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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 66748, member: 57463"]First off, you are in the UK, and from our USA perspective, collecting there is a bit different.  I hate to contradict Ian -- never found him to know less than I about anything I thought I knew something about -- but the coin is not damaged -- and it is more collectible -- and not just as war memoribilia. Here in the States, we have a tradition of "Hobo Nickels" (<a href="http://www.hobonickels.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hobonickels.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hobonickels.org/</a>) and "Love Tokens"  (US themes: <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article2003.chtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article2003.chtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article2003.chtml</a> British themes: <a href="http://www.lancastercastle.com/lovetokens.htm)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.lancastercastle.com/lovetokens.htm)" rel="nofollow">http://www.lancastercastle.com/lovetokens.htm)</a>. The Hobo Nickels in particular open the door to this kind of coin you found. On a minor note, is the pipe called not a "Sherlock Holmes" but rather an Oom Paul, named for "Uncle Paul" Kruger who smoked one?  (The image of Holmes comes from the Basil Rathbone movies.)[/QUOTE]