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acan4511acan4511 Posts: 89 ✭✭✭
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Can someone please tell me anything about these coins ? tokens?
Do they have any value ?
Thank you in advance
Alan

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  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,270 ✭✭✭✭✭

    For starters, use the Google to find each coin. You have words and dates on each coin. The George III is the easy one. How did you acquire them? Did the prior owner give you any info? You also need to study up to authenticate them. Are any of them replicas? Good luck. Peace Roy

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  • acan4511acan4511 Posts: 89 ✭✭✭

    Hi Roy
    I have had them for several years, bought them online don't remember what I payed for them, The last owner wrote on the covers I have no idea what it all means.
    I would have study up on them, but I don't even know what they are called lol.
    If they are replicas I have no idea
    Thank you for the help
    Alan

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I believe they are imitation British spade guineas. They were made for a counter/tally/casting board or perhaps for playing cards. The French term for these sorts of things is jetons. They are collectibles but values are typically not too high.

    Mr. John Andrew has written an article on the high end of these things in the March 2020 issue of 'Coin News' (Token Publishing Company, UK).

  • acan4511acan4511 Posts: 89 ✭✭✭

    BillDugan1959
    Thank you for the info the thing I find unusual is how light they are
    Alan

  • acan4511acan4511 Posts: 89 ✭✭✭

    @acan4511 said:

    BillDugan1959
    Thank you for the info the thing I find unusual is how light they are
    Alan

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bronze or brass alloys should get lighter in weight as less copper and more tin or zinc is added.

    Real gold should be heavier than a similarly-sized copper, bronze or brass item. A genuine Spade Guinea should be about 8.35 grams.

  • acan4511acan4511 Posts: 89 ✭✭✭

    BillDugan1959
    Yes one of mine says 3.8 g.
    I find it cool they are still over a hundred years old if what I have read so far is correct
    Thank you again great info
    Alan

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,454 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Agree. Spade guineas.

    A decent niche collectable.

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