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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 475429, member: 12789&quot;]I bought a WWI &quot;Death Penny&quot; from a British auction awhile back, they are memorial medals that were given out by the Admiralty to British families after WWI as a memorial to their loved one.&nbsp; These memorials were remarkably unpopular, because the Admiralty sent them out through the Royal Mail to the recipients.&nbsp; Soon they got the moniker &quot;Death Penny&quot; and that is how these memorials are referred to still.</p><p><br /></p><p>Often times families did not want them, and they even through them out with the rubbish etc.&nbsp; They are unusual to find today because of that.&nbsp; Early in 1919 after much public wrangling over the medals and due to the expense - the Admiralty discontinued the programme.&nbsp; I have heard of detectorists finding these medals in rubbish heaps outside of London etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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