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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;antonio fisk, post: 8266503, member: 119401&quot;]I have been collecting smoothed coins in the UK for many years now.</p><p>The ones I collect were usually owned by shove ha’penny players. </p><p>Bronze Halfpence were used to slide along a marked smooth wooden board, to end up between lateral line markings.&nbsp; </p><p>The lucky player would take the pot of bets made by the players.</p><p>It is not unusual to find these coins worn flat, or smoothed, by years of playing Shove Ha’penny.</p><p>It was not uncommon for a player to own the same coin for playing, all his life.</p><p>They are rare, and I find them interesting, especially those only worn on one side, with the ob/reverse in nice condition.</p><p>I only have less than a dozen game smoothed coins.</p><p>Pub gaming and gambling has been illegal since before WW2, and hence </p><p>Most of the coins I have found date from 1860’s to 1920’s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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