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Hi everyone! So the Mint Museum finally got back to me, i think they've been rather busy. They were very helpful and were able to identify the coin. This is the email they sent me: "The visit referred to on the medal was made to the Royal Mint at its old site at Tower Hill in London by the Dragon school in Oxford on 9 November 1936. The Dragon school is one of the best known preparatory schools in the country and numbers amongst its former pupils a very wide range of successful men and women. It was founded in 1877 by a group of Oxford University dons as a way of educating their own children and would have been well known to Sir Robert Johnson, Deputy Master of the Mint in 1936. The medal seems to have been presented as a memento of the visit and there is a specimen in the Royal Mint Museum. We have not managed to discover how many were struck but we do, however, have an entry in the Royal Mint’s visitor book from 1936 which shows that there were 65 teachers and children in the party." Interesting stuff! Thanks for pointing me to the Mint Museum, Constanius!

I have not yet heard back from the museum, I hope they do have some info. I guess they might be pretty busy right now, what with the games and everything. I will definitely pass on anything I come across, though! Thanks again for the advice

Thanks for the advice Constanius! I sent the Royal Mint museum a message. It seems plausible that it could be about the cup.

Hello! I work at a small museum, and we were given a small number of coins. One these coins is the one in the photo. It seems quite similar to the coin in this thread, but the `Dragon`s Visit 1936` inscription seems unique. I can`t find any information on the web about what this might refer to, so any help is most welcome!