Strange token?!

[william]

Hi everyone,

I've got a weird token (i think!!) in my collection at the moment. It is silver (in colour, not metal!), and is extremely light in weight. On the reverse it says at the the top

'BENTLEY 4 1/2-LITRE'

. In the centre of the coin there is a picture of an old fashioned car, and at the bottom the date is 1928. On the obverse it has the 'SHELL' logo at the top, and underneath that it reads

The classic British sports car of the period. Speed 90-95 mph.

The edge is milled and the grade is AVF. Can anybody tell me what it is, actual year it was issued, value etc. etc.?

Thanks,

William.

[Emperor Oli]

Probably one of the many things they issued over the years (Man is Space (?) springs to mind). You know the sort: Buy £10 of petrol, get a coin. Collect the whole set blah blah - a commercial gimmick

[Chris Perkins]

I'd hazzard a guess that the car is a Bentley 4.5 Litre and that the token was issued at a shell garage. The Shell company often make little collections of car, football and goodness knows what else coins.

I would imagine it's pretty new, probably no older than the 50's. Maybe it was part of a series of British Sports car coins, one from each decade or whatever.

[william]

Thanks, it'll be worh incredibly little then!

[Emperor Oli]

Thanks, it'll be worh incredibly little then!

You have hit the proverbial nail on its proverbial head

[william]

Yep!