Help IDing token

[Coin_Surfer]

This was found in a penny roll. Does anybody know what this is, or has anyone come across it? Any info is appreciated.

 

[sagittarius98]

Put it in the "What Is It?" section.

 

[G.A.P.metal]

Don`t know about it ...nice find though

 

[jrf30]

The HRH stands for His Royal HIghness. It is a token for the Prince of Wales His Royal Highness. that position today is held by Prince Charles. There are numerous coins out for him and for his deceased wife, Diana, princess of Wales. Yours is obviously older. What is the year on it? that is the only thing blurred. Is it 1836?? 1886? Many were minted by the Canadian Mint. Others in England. Not many in the USA. Google it by the date and HRH and you'll see numerous options. :-)

 

[sagittarius98]

The Date is 1886, based on the fact that was the only exhibition opened on May 4th.

Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886 |


The Prince of Wales at the time was the future King George V.

 

[Mackaydon]

A most interesting token commemorating an historic event.
Some history:

The Prince of Wales was specially and personally concerned with the grand scheme for exhibiting, at one time and in one place, the representative productions of India and the whole Colonial Empire.

It was on November 10, 1884, that the Queen issued a Royal Commission to arrange for holding an exhibition, in the year 1886, of the products, manufactures, and arts of her Colonial and Indian dominions. Of this Commission the Prince of Wales was president.

"This exhibition was, indeed, one of profound and earnest significance, making known to Britons at home of what stuff their brethren and fellow subjects in distant climes were made. The people in the British Isles were compelled, at last, to awake to a sense of the reality and the greatness of the empire of which, in territorial area, the homelands that they inhabited formed only an eightieth part."
The source for the above is: Full text of "King Edward VII, his life & reign; the record of a noble career"
Start, if you wish, at about paragraph numbered ‘60’ to get the full flavor of the event.
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