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coincopcoincop Posts: 441
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The Tower Mint. Souvenir shop for tokens or are these things coins? I have one "Solid Nickel Silver" with CASTELL CONWY on one side with a picture of a big castle. The other is "solid bronze" and has a more elaborate castle with "The Tower Of London" above it. No dates on the side that's showing in the case. They were gotten in 76 or 77.


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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sound like tokens or medals. Coins would bear the denomination.

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  • coincopcoincop Posts: 441


    << <i>Sound like tokens or medals. Coins would bear the denomination. >>



    They may have more on the back but I haven't taken them out. Maybe I will. They look like they already have 25 year old fingerprints on them.
    Glock: the original point and click interface.
    The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.
    Guns have only two enemies, rust and liberals.
    Criminals love gun control, it makes their profession safer.
    If guns are outlawed can we use swords?
    A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone
  • coincopcoincop Posts: 441
    Ok, the other side of the silver one has a half horse half dragon half eagle half bat looking thing with "Y ddraig goch" under it. And LOTS of fingerprints around the edges.


    The other side of the bronze has one REALLY pissed off looking bird standing on the top of a wall or something and it says 1979. No denominations so they're tokens of some kind.

    Probably just London souvenirs.
    Glock: the original point and click interface.
    The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.
    Guns have only two enemies, rust and liberals.
    Criminals love gun control, it makes their profession safer.
    If guns are outlawed can we use swords?
    A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone
  • BailathaclBailathacl Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭
    Sounds like a Welch legend...
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  • coincopcoincop Posts: 441


    << <i>Sounds like a Welch legend... >>



    No, they're real. I'm sitting here looking at them.
    Glock: the original point and click interface.
    The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.
    Guns have only two enemies, rust and liberals.
    Criminals love gun control, it makes their profession safer.
    If guns are outlawed can we use swords?
    A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone
  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Hey coincop - welcome to our side of the street - I have one "Solid Nickel Silver
    What is solid nickel silver?????
    Don't know what those things are but would like to see apicture if you got one.

    Shep
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  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Here goes the neighborhood. Just make sure you keep CCW chained in her room and don't let her wander over here.image
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  • kuhlikuhli Posts: 501
    Tower Mint

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    I'm afraid to be alive without being aware of it

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That does sound like a Welsh legend that you mentioned.

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  • coincopcoincop Posts: 441


    << <i>Hey coincop - welcome to our side of the street - I have one "Solid Nickel Silver
    What is solid nickel silver?????
    Don't know what those things are but would like to see apicture if you got one.

    Shep >>




    That's what the box says. I don't make this stuff up. I think the Brits are using secret codes.
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    If guns are outlawed can we use swords?
    A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone
  • coincopcoincop Posts: 441
    Oh and btw, they are LIMITED EDITIONS!!!!
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    Criminals love gun control, it makes their profession safer.
    If guns are outlawed can we use swords?
    A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nickel silver is the same as "German silver", I believe. An alloy including copper, zinc, and nickel. Not sure if it actually contains any real silver or not.

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  • coincopcoincop Posts: 441
    What about the LIMITED EDITIONNESS? That has GOT to mean BIG money!!!
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    The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.
    Guns have only two enemies, rust and liberals.
    Criminals love gun control, it makes their profession safer.
    If guns are outlawed can we use swords?
    A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone
  • coincopcoincop Posts: 441


    << <i>Tower Mint >>



    Ok, so the dragonhorseeaglebat is the Welsh Dragon.

    And this is one of them is this castle image

    I don't see the pissed off bird on a wall design.
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    Criminals love gun control, it makes their profession safer.
    If guns are outlawed can we use swords?
    A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone
  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭
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  • coincopcoincop Posts: 441


    << <i> >>



    Put it back. image


    Edited out insults can't be fully appreciated.
    Glock: the original point and click interface.
    The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.
    Guns have only two enemies, rust and liberals.
    Criminals love gun control, it makes their profession safer.
    If guns are outlawed can we use swords?
    A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭


    << <i>Here goes the neighborhood. Just make sure you keep CCW chained in her room and don't let her wander over here.image >>



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  • TegTeg Posts: 135
    Hi,
    "Y ddraig goch"
    ddraig = dragon, goch = red, Y = The.
    The red dragon (Welsh has the words in a different order to English), this
    Dragon is on the Welsh flag.

    CASTELL CONWY = Conwy Castle, a castle unsurprisingly, in North Wales.

    The Tower of London at one stage held the Royal Mint (until about 1810)

    Your "Really pissed off bird" is either a French tourist - or more likely one
    of the famous Ravens associated with the Tower.

    Ravens

    Teg
  • coincopwifecoincopwife Posts: 182 ✭✭
    Thank you all for your help. These items were among some things that were my mother's and I was interested in more information about them.

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  • laserartlaserart Posts: 2,255 ✭


    << <i>Ok, the other side of the silver one has a half horse half dragon half eagle half bat looking thing with "Y ddraig goch" under it. And LOTS of fingerprints around the edges.


    The other side of the bronze has one REALLY pissed off looking bird standing on the top of a wall or something and it says 1979. No denominations so they're tokens of some kind.

    Probably just London souvenirs. >>


    4 halves make a whole???
    "If I had a nickel for every nickel I ever had, I'd have all my nickels back".
  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Ok, the other side of the silver one has a half horse half dragon half eagle half bat looking thing with "Y ddraig goch" under it. And LOTS of fingerprints around the edges. >>




    4 halves make a whole??? >>




    Ah you've stumbled upon the theory of dark matter. Each of the four halves are indeed halves and therefore make up two pictures in total, however half of each half is 'dark matter' (i suppose we should expect more of it on the darkside). Dark matter is inpercievable to the human eye, it is of course there but it's somewhere else unseeable. So one of those pictures is somewhere else and we can only see the other one. So it gives the elusion of quarters. However if you were to scientifically chuck the coin and measure the velocity you'd see that Colin is correct. A coin with just two halves would not travel as fast due to having a lower mass.

    The upshot of it is though, is that Colin is quite correct in his assumption that they are all indeed halves. image (Yes all four of them).]






  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Some are halves, others are half nots
  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭


    << <i>Some are halves, others are half nots >>



    That brings back painful memories, especially living in a half not region.
  • coinpicturescoinpictures Posts: 5,345 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Some are halves, others are half nots >>



    oBNonSequitur: How the heck do you tie half a not? Same as digging half a hole?
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  • bonkroodbonkrood Posts: 796 ✭✭✭
    Sounds like this thread has turned into a bunch of halfholes. image
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