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HI all and Happy Thanksgiving!! these are a couple of items i found and am not able to find much info on. i believe the queen vic half cent is a token. i found the same coin in a book but it was silver/nickel the one i have here appears to be copper. the highly deteriorated one appears to have george washington on it. any ideas on any of them????


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mikeB
 

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You are doing the same thing that i did when i started,Please resize your pics to 640x480 or smaller for better identification.
Nova Treasure
 
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I believe that the coin with an eagle & snake may be a c. 1910-17 Mexican Revolution period 5 centavos copper. Here's an example (left) from 1916, along with yours (right). There are quite a few varieties, but this should be close enough for comparison.
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pbk is a killer on iding stuff.

cool "mexican revoltion" coin -- and english company money / token
 
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thanks all !!

mikeB
 
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Cru, you're right.

The half cent is copper of 22.5mm and weighs 4.66 gms. Queen Victoria is on the obverse. The reverse shows a myrtle wreath with half cent within and East India Company against the plain edged rim. In all 18,737,498 of this coin were struck.
Source: http://www.winsociety.org/newsletter/news_archive/rod2.html
 
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The third object is a double bust Washington presidential token. Both examples I found on Ebay were made of brass and had the same inscription on both sides. "1st President U.S.A. 1789-1797". Unfortunately, I can't transfer the pictures over(darn Auctiva!). Coincidently, both have a hole in the top right where the large broken area occurs on your specimen, so I'd say it's more of a medallion than a token. One side appears to have a rim, while the reverse is rimless, almost convex. No information from either auction about it's source or year it was "minted". Here's a link to the one with the best pictures.
http://cgi.ebay.com/GEORGE-WASHINGT...oryZ3454QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
 
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thanks all for your help!!

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