TOY COINS

[copper123]

I now have my own New model crown and a total beauty it is to I got it for less than three figures so am really happy its in about EF grade 

[copper123]

I must admit it looks very dated for the time (About 1850 ) a time when the british empire was massively expanding IMHO but at the time it's a perfectly good pattern coin 

[Peckris 2]

That would place it around the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Fascinating to speculate it may have been struck there to  demonstrate minting machinery, just as the 1951 crown was struck at the Festival of Britain.

[copper123]

4 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:

That would place it around the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Fascinating to speculate it may have been struck there to  demonstrate minting machinery, just as the 1951 crown was struck at the Festival of Britain.

There are more recent examples like the pobjoy mint £1 isle of man coins in the early 1980's at the ideal home exhibitions they had a special privy mark on them.

It might be interesting to get a list of exibitors from the great exhibition , to be honest i cannot see the royal mint being there but the heaton mint or moore could have been .

I am asuming the new model crown came after the much more common gothic example produced in 1848 or a little later 

[Citizen H]

I dont think these have been show by me,  undated...

the lower one look like it may have a cracked die, albeit not currency and only, model / toy coins...

 

Edited yesterday at 02:32 PM by Citizen H

[Citizen H]

[Peckris 2]

20 hours ago, copper123 said:

It might be interesting to get a list of exibitors from the great exhibition , to be honest i cannot see the royal mint being there but the heaton mint or moore could have been .

I am asuming the new model crown came after the much more common gothic example produced in 1848 or a little later 

What size is it?

[copper123]

oh matron !

Its the same size as the Moore gothic crowns

[copper123]

I must admit I am disturbed with the reverse 

one irish symbol

one Scottish

and yet two English

Did someone hate the Welsh?

[Peckris 2]

3 hours ago, copper123 said:

oh matron !

Its the same size as the Moore gothic crowns

What I mean is - if it's the same smaller size as other toy coins, then it wouldn't have been the Mint at the Great Exh. but probably Moore (presumably Heatons didn't strike toy coins?)