Question - does anyone have an idea of why Henry Charles Englefield from Berkshire had several different sized and in different metals tokens with his portrait on the obverse and his initials on the reverse with ancient Greeks dates above and below his initials? What were these tokens used for? They were minted to simulate Ancient Greek coins in 1819 at the Soho Mint in Birmingham.
The dates above and below his initials are his year of Birth (above) and 1817 (below). The sizes are approximately 32mm, 23mm, 20mm and 18mm and were made of silver with a uniface 32mm and the 18mm tokens in copper.
Englefield was a rich Baron and belonged to several societies.