🔎 UNIDENTIFIED I found this 'coin' in England in 2019 (after that have not been back - Corona). But it could be a coin way back when, but what is it now?

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This copper 'coin' has one blank side, and the other only has a small crown and under the crown two letters, a W and a R.

It so happens that a crowned WR is a famous icon for marking tin beer ‘puls’ in England in the past. A ‘pul’ is a temporary container for beer (until it is empty).

So this could have been a test or something like that for the punch that punched the icon (for quality and maker) onto the tin ‘pul’. The ‘pul’ is a temporary container for beer (of course until it is empty),

Well some of the English people here might know if that is true or not (I don’t), especially Cru (Crusader) who as we know visits those places quite a bit.
 

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It's a piece from an old vintage lock...the keyhole cover had WR crowned on it now broken off
Many different styles were made with a variety of shapes of covers yours was just round..and theres a broken edge on part of it
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Thanks Mike and Ironhorse for your input and ideas!:notworthy:
 

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It's a piece from an old vintage lock...the keyhole cover had WR crowned on it now broken off
Many different styles were made with a variety of shapes of covers yours was just round..and theres a broken edge on part of it
Pic for reference
Yeap, please mark as solved.
 

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