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Can anybody tell me anything about this Coin?

Scool Dinners Coin

Thank you.

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[Geordie582 18]

Judging from the telephone numbers and the slogan, it is an advertisement not a coin. A restaurant named "School Dinners" ?

Edited February 18, 2006 by Geordie582

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Thank you.

Should it be called a Token not a Coin then?

[Peter 615]

Its a piece of stamped metal from a tacky restaurant where I feel the "joke" ran out in the 90's.

[Chris Perkins 228]

(or even the 80's with an 01 London prefix before they changed to 081/071)

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Thanks for all your input it is very welcome.

Maybe I should change it to lump of metal with a nice pattern...lol

Thanks too everybody for there help.

Peace and Love.

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[Peter 615]

A nice "tails" I would agree.

[Chris Perkins 228]

Certainly an interesting reverse.

[Guest Aitchbee]

Right about the restaurant! This was the "eighties" of long lunches and excess. School Dinners was a fairly tacky but quite amusing idea, where red-braced young executives ate school-style meals - stews, sausages, meat pie etc. followed by rice pudding, jam roly-poly etc. The 'reverse' is a low level picture (!) of one of the lunch moniotrs who, as well as serving used to impose discipline on diners. Some used to sit on diners' knees and spoon feed them if they were reluctant to "eat it all up". Sadly, society grew up and became a bit po-faced babout this sort of thing, but it was fun at the time. The obverse was the trademark - a picture of a headmaster being more publicly acceptable than the alternative.

I suggest (if you're old enough) you retain the coin and pretend you got it whilst there. If not, give it to someone else who might be able to!

Thanks for the memory jog.

[Guest aitchbee]

Blimey! It's still operating, but now seems to have added stag & hen nights to the clientele - "Sexy St Trinians girls & Hunky Eaten (geddit) Boys". I'd have put money on them being out of business by the PC 90s.

HB

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I might have to check it out myself