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TBH, I hadn't considered Brunk, what's he like outside of North america?

Thanks John. The date is within spitting distance but it's a long way from 1d to three shillings. As with all countermarks, you are left with the question, WHY?

Gawd bless yer Guv.

That is the coat of arms of Castile & Leon, but the coin looks to be a cast copy. Better pics, better ID. (Oh, and please turn off your Caps Lock)

A very long shot I know, but does anyone have British Countermarks on Copper and Bronze Coins,James Gavin Scott, Spink & Son Ltd., London 1975 I'm trying to trace a CP counterstrike that I have on the obverse of a 3/- Bank token and have been lucky in the past matching copper and bronze countermarks to silver coin.

Sorry Rob, I somehow missed your reply. Thank you. I've not seen anything like it before and I think it's neat.

Me too. I'd assumed that it was a pension fund purchase along the lines of British Rail's huge art collection.

This is only a tentative ID, any help appreciated although it's a lousy image. 10 mm, 0.6 gr.

I do agree that the example shown looks very much more like an example of paleofaeces (human byproduct). The rough and ready way to field test them is that paleofaeces will generally yield to the hammer. Coporolites don't.

Bloody marvelous! I spend a few years on here learning at the feet of the Masters. Putting in my own few thoughts on exonumia from time to time. And when it comes to my turn to shine; a chance to display my arcane knowledge; what do I get? Dino-bloody-doodoo. Yes coporolites. In the early 1800s, a local girl to me, Mary Anning, was noted for finding and selling fossils from the cliffs at Lyme Regis. She is, incidentally, thought to be the subject of the tongue twister “She sells sea shells by the sea shore” She noticed that a fossil known at that time as a bezoar stone was often found in the abdominal region of ichthyosaur skeletons found in the Lias formation at Lyme Regis. She also noted that if such stones were broken open they often contained fossilized fish bones and scales as well as sometimes bones from smaller ichthyosaurs. It was these observations by Anning that led the geologist William Buckland to propose in 1829 that the stones were fossilized feces and named them coprolites. Buckland also suspected that the spiral markings on the fossils indicated that ichthyosaurs had spiral ridges in their intestines similar to those of modern sharks. We are, in effect, talking about rifling very much like on a modern bullet. What we are in fact seeing is the mineralised result of a creature excreting in an extremely specific environment. Not too moist, not too dry and probably not unlike very deep leaf mould. The first thing that our dino-turd would do involved slowly losing its internal moisture, a process that required a steady temperature over a considerable period of time. After it had become dried but not quite dessiccated minerals would leach in from the earth and the surrounding leaf mould. Millenia later, you have a very efficient paper weight and a great talking point. The various external bumps, ridges and grooves are a co-effect of dehydration and rifling. You can find out more on Wikipedia, but I wrote much of that also.

^ My GP has the same opinion of me.

No disrespect intended towards the vendor, but WTF is a "Semi Proof"? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-OZ-BRITANNIA-958-SILVER-2004-SEMI-PROOF-TWO-POUND-COIN-/382148191177?hash=item58f9cea3c9:g:ZUEAAOSwMvtZWNLs

^ The seller was a she

It's been ended.

Not a coin, but a counting token or Rechenpffenig. Made in Nuremberg, Germany and used on a counting board to work out accounts before Europe adopted the Arabic concept of zero as a number. Just google rechenpffenig and all will be clear.

What's going on with the second 1 in the date? It's not PMD.

Thomas Hall’s London (Middlesex) copper halfpenny token 1795. D&H Middlesex No: 317. Diameter 31.2mm. Mostly found in this condition or better.

This is coming up tomorrow, but I'm not sure. It looks to have been cleaned perhaps: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1845-Silver-Maundy-Penny/401357671552?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

There are one or two in bronze but the lack of any other info on this one is puzzling.

More likely to be a communion token

This is a good contender, or at least close to: https://www.deamoneta.com/auctions/view/118/234

For a coin I'd never heard of before Monday: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FOUR-SILVER-COINS-FROM-CAMBODIA-DATED-1847-IN-A-USED-FINE-OR-BETTER-CONDITION-/152569108375?hash=item2385d3d797:g:vtgAAOSwY3BZMAM2

Nice work.

I've seen similar images on tokens, not coins, from Indonesia and the Philippines. No idea however on any meaning, except perhaps a crude rendition of the Garuda bird.

I think spotted this last week, and was quite surprised. I lived close to the EMI pressing plant for years and knew sod all about these tokens.