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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;norantyki, post: 24646715, member: 118879&quot;]These, as well as other &#039;model&#039; coins were produced by Joseph Moore of Birmingham from the 1840s-70s. These coins were meant to be more practical than the current circulation pieces issued for the UK owing to the silver core (in reality usually plated or washed in the model coinage) which meant that the intrinsic value was more compact, and yet not inconveniently small. The pieces found great popularity in and around Birmingham, to the point that the Royal Mint had to make a statement that they did not recognize the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually, the estate of Mr Moore was liquidated, and corroded dies were found, along with some planchets (noted in the British Museum treatise on copper and bronze coinage). These were used to produce some later examples, but the majority were produced from 1844-48 before the RM denouncement.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kevin Barter has written a very decent illustrated catalogue of the series.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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