Tokens or medalions

[Guest Eduardo]

Hello,

I have had for a long time some copper and bras pieces that look like sovereigns. Somewhere I have read that they are propaganda tikens. Specially those of Queen Victoria with "To Hanover" and "Keep your temper" reverses. Could someone tell me more about them

Eduardo

[Geoff T]

Hello,

I have had for a long time some copper and bras pieces that look like sovereigns. Somewhere I have read that they are propaganda tikens. Specially those of Queen Victoria with "To Hanover" and "Keep your temper" reverses. Could someone tell me more about them

Eduardo

These are 19th century gaming tokens and are fairly common. The character on horseback is Queen Victoria's uncle, Ernst August. When George I became king, the British crown and the Electorate and later Kingdon of Hanover/Hannover were united. Since the Hanoverian crown could not pass through the female line, on the death of William IV in 1837 his niece Victoria succeeded him in the UK but the Hanoverian throne passed to the next male heir, her uncle Ernst. He wasn't that popular either here or there and the tokens suggest we were glad to see the back of him.

Ernst's son, George V of Hanover, is the person after whom the Hotel Georges Cinq in Paris is named. He was blind from a childhood accident and during his reign the Kingdom of Hanover was annexed by Prussia.

Geoff

[Eduardo]

Thanks Geoff,

A very interesting answer. I suppose there is an explanation to "Keep your temper" as interesting as this one. The one of cigarretes from Guayaquil, Ecuador is the only non British.

Eduardo