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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 1288492, member: 17919&quot;]The top of the obverse of your coin reads &quot;COVENTRY HALFPENNY&quot;. It was a token used in place of coin of the realm in England because of the copper coin shortage at the time. It looks like an Elephant-and-Castle design on your obverse, rather than Coventry Cathedral. It probably looked something like this in its better days:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.abccoinsandtokens.com/DH.Warks.242a.001.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.abccoinsandtokens.com/DH.Warks.242a.001.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.abccoinsandtokens.com/DH.Warks.242a.001.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.abccoinsandtokens.com/DH.Warks.242a.001.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.abccoinsandtokens.com/DH.Warks.242a.001.html" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.abccoinsandtokens.com/DH.Warks.242a.001.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.abccoinsandtokens.com/DH.Warks.242a.001.html" rel="nofollow">O</a>n edit: The other coin is a Columbia farthing token.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.aboutfarthings.co.uk/Columbia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.aboutfarthings.co.uk/Columbia" rel="nofollow">http://www.aboutfarthings.co.uk/Columbia</a> Farthings.html[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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