My New Largest UK Coin - Token

[krasnaya_vityaz 0]

Wanted one of these for a long time, hard to find in nice shape, they are usually bunged up from being used against Napoleon at Waterintheloo.

[planz666 0]

That is some piece,thanks for sharing it...

[simon 0]

Wow, looks really large!

What's the diameter of this Token? Is it heavy?

Simon

[krasnaya_vityaz 0]

It is about 48 mm in diametre, and about 75 grammes in weight, old Avoirdupois weight, just under 3 ozs weight.

[simon 0]

Oops, that's a bigger coin than a Twopence of 1797! (I tought this one is heavy)

[krasnaya_vityaz 0]

The tuppence of 1797 was my previous largest UK piece, now this is. It is about 1/2 again larger than the tuppence. I have heard somewhere on another forum that the Birmingham Workhouse had the Soho Mint prepare dies for a Sixpence in bronze also, but it ended up being a silver token instead of a bronze one. There are purportedly a very few examples which were struck in the large bronze composition.

[Unknown 0]

That is big! Thanks for sharing!

[simon 0]

6p in copper? The poor people would have taken a wheelbarrow to go shopping! But probably they did so anyway

The biggest coins of Switzerland were the 'Talers' that were produced to replace the goldcoins because gold was not available at that time. One of the biggest coins must have been the Doppel-Taler from Basel of 1670 with a diametre of 51mm and a weight of 56.46 gramm. A masterpiece of a coin!

Its a pitty that the price is too high to afford one!

[krasnaya_vityaz 0]

No wonder Sweden lost its primacy in the Baltic during the Great Northern War:

Swedish Plate Money

[Peter 615]

Its funny how things come together.

Britain imported Swedish copper blanks during the latter part of the 17C.(Charles 11 currency cu etc)

This was in the time when the intrinsic value of the metal was attempted to be made equal to the coin.

The Swedish copper was apparently higher quality than the home produced copper and obviously much cheaper (looking at those massive Swedish copper coins )

Looks like a good series to research....although maybe high postal charges.

[krasnaya_vityaz 0]

Sweden manufactured the copper blanks for the Scottish Bawbee and Bodle coinages in the late 17th century also.

Funny how Britain imported Swedish copper, then the USA imported copper blanks from Britain during the early 19th century, which accounts for the scarcity of USA cents during the War of 1812.

[Unknown 0]

No wonder Sweden lost its primacy in the Baltic during the Great Northern War:

Swedish Plate Money

I love those plates! I wish they would be affordable, but that is out of the question, imagine the shipping charges from Sweden to here for one of those!

[krasnaya_vityaz 0]

I love those plates! I wish they would be affordable, but that is out of the question, imagine the shipping charges from Sweden to here for one of those!

There were 37 of them for sale in the Heritage Auction in May 2003, of course I couldn't afford them during that time or I would have a complete type set by denomination. So far I only have the Daler and 2 Daler, and need the 1/2 Daler and 4 Daler.