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I think it was John Stephenson who said on the forum: "I buy junk and sell collectable coins" or summat like that.

I have seen a few like this, but not in silver. I'd really like a good shot of the reverse to check the hallmark.

These were issued in the hundreds of thousands, and are usually only collected if they were issued by a local authority or commercial company. That said, yours is a reverse design I don't come across very often, and I sell hundreds of this type of medal every year. Give me some better images to work with.

For anyone interested in Irish coins and tokens I have to say that James runs the finest site I've come across to date.

I don't have the Barter, but it sounds interesting. Krause only lists around 10 or 11 varieties. Yours looks to be X 9a or X 9c depending on whether it is solid copper or copper plated WM. I'm going for X9a, and it looks to be one of the best I've seen.

Lauer wasn't the only game in town. Nuremberg had many small button and die stampers, just like Birmingham.

It's not easy to tell without a much better close up but, are these marks actual circles or a concentric spiral? If it's a spiral, the marks could be the product of a "reducing machine", an early piece of high tech that was used to make smaller copies of medals and coins for the "commemorative" market. Sometimes also called a Reducing Pantograph.

Not a coin, but a counter used for games; card games in particular. Likely made in Nuremberg and imitating an Austrian coin. Probably late nineteenth century.

So, is this just a two coin set? 5p & 10p were the only decimals carrying a 1968 date as far as I can recall.

Companies House are usually working 3-6 weeks in arrears. CGS could already be sleeping with the fishes.

In fact, a lot of the fakes were not made to fool collectors, but shopkeepers. Just as in England tradesmen's tokens became part of the local currency accepted pretty much anywhere, plantation tokens became accepted as real money outside of the plantation truck shops. Very much like hacienda tokens in Mexico and Latin America.

Your family having owned these for a long time should preclude them being fakes, but in the Netherlands and the Far East plantation tokens have been collected for many, many decades. Fakes are common. I'm undecided about yours, they almost look too good. Contact Koen on his site: http://www.plantagegeld.nl/ if he can't hep you, he'll know a man who can.

There is no way. Let me look through my stock and I'll send you a clean one. Remind me if I haven't done anything by next monday. We're not used to this much sun, and it makes us a bit drowsy.

It looks like a Robert Raikes Sunday School medal to me. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Robert+Raikes+sunday+school+medals&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM-Nj6tf_NAhXEVxoKHX3mALUQ_AUICSgC&biw=1093&bih=525

It's a selling website catering in the main for hand crafted items, but it does have a Vintage section for anything over 25 years old. A hell of a lot of coin sellers use it as insertion fees are only $0.20 for three months and final value fees only 3.5%. https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BAGERAP?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Some monkey on ebay has knocked off the copy to one of my items, word for word. I can't report it through the normal ebay channels because my listing is on Etsy.

It really depends on what the underlying metal is. Obviously we can discount silver with this example, but there are copper plated white metal and copper plated brass versions. And a few off metal variations. It's only important if you wish to be sure that you have the correct catalogue number. The value is pretty much the same across the board.

Mr Osborne is disingenuous with his "£30 Billion black hole" From Philip Aldrick of the Telegraph "The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has calculated that the national debt is £4.8 trillion once state and public sector pension liabilities are included, or £78,000 for every person in the UK....finances data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that the total debt, excluding bank bail-outs, is £816bn. However, the figures strip out the state's pension liabilities in a contravention of standard accounting practices. Mark Littlewood, the IEA's director-general, said: "The official national debt figure is seriously misleading. Looming in the background are pension liabilities. These should be moved to the forefront. The ONS should include these liabilities in their calculations. It is shocking enough to see official figures revealing a jump in national debt, but the grave reality is that our real national debt stands at 333pc of GDP." The £1.2 trillion public sector pension liability and £2.7 trillion state pension liability, should be published either monthly or annually alongside the net debt data for reasons of transparency.' £30 billion is but a flea bite compared with the sum he is concealing,a huge % of which is Civil Service pensions, illegally awarded by Civil Servants to Civil Servants without any consultation. No government has the guts to take on the CS. Those guys know where the bodies are buried. Or where they will be buried. Meanwhile 320,000 women born after 1950 have had their pensions stolen by successive governments and no one does a thing about it.

Yes, because informed buyers are dangerous. And by ebay's definitions, informers must be banned.

Am I right in thinking that if a piece such as this were bought by an overseas buyer, an export licence would be required; and if so a Brit museum could then purchase the item at hammer price?

Which is pretty much why they shut down the counterfeits committee.

coincommunityforum still seem to have a working reporting system with ebay for fakes. Most stuff is taken down within 24 hours. They run specific threads for US and Canadian coins, and one for World coins: http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=162

For detector pilots, tomorrow Friday 10th @ 13.30 on Radio4extra In Pursuit of Treasure. First broadcast 2010

TTIP, you know what that is don't you?It's one of the major reasons for leaving the EU. Europe is ready to sign. Actually, that's not exactly true. The unelected EU leadership is ready to sign but they're keeping the details of the treaty secret. If your MEP wants to read the details, he has to go to a locked and guarded room where he or she can read it but not take any notes; and of course your MEP can't vote on the matter. Apart from being a ticking financial time bomb, the EU is also deeply undemocratic.But you knew that didn't you? http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/what-is-ttip-and-six-reasons-why-the-answer-should-scare-you-9779688.html

Tony Clayton gives it at £35 in Fine, but looking at the clearly depicted grain of the work surface and having spent a few hours photographing fractionals yesterday, I'd not fancy it at more than Good near Fine.