whats this any help

[Guest eddie1]

what is this

[Guest eddie1]

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[Sylvester 15]

Welcome, i see you made it over here...

Well i'll thrown my idea on the table, i thought i probably was a gaming token, but looking at those pictures it looks more like lead with gold paint... which suggests more counterfeit to me.

But if it is a counterfeit it's not a convincing one...

What does everyone else think?

[Emperor Oli 0]

I think it's rather convincing, actually. I looks to be a painted half crown which could have been done to attempt to pass it off as something of a higher denomination. I don't think it's a counterfeit in the way that Sylvester is saying, where he seems to think that it's been struck from die made by the counterfeiter (correct me if I'm wrong), I think that it's a half crown taken out of circulation and painted or gilded to try to use as perhaps a half-sovereign.

[Chris Perkins 228]

No, it's brass, and would have originally been silvered to be passed off as a Half Crown.

No one would ever have accepted a very light Half Crown sized gold coin, which would have been an ovbious fake. People would have been more likely to accept a sligtly underweight Half Crown.

[Sylvester 15]

He said it was half sovereign sized though.

[Chris Perkins 228]

Yes of course, looks like a fake shilling...(23mm, more like sovereign size, but brass fake shillings are very common)

[Sylvester 15]

Well looking at that pic i thought it looked bigger than a 10/-