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Quite a provenance there Clive, very nice too

Dalton & Hammer's The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century can be found as a free download online. Here is a better option, though it is not free http://condertokenbook.com/ Here is a link to a free list of auction prices for Norfolk to Yorkshire conder tokens http://condertokenbook.com/giveaway

Silver bullet money is very handy if you are troubled by vampires.

Thanks Mark, happy Xmas

I suspect 1850's-1860's, but it is impossible to be sure, unless you can find historical documentation re a certain electrotype. I will be posting the others I acquired, when time permits, & it was easy to find most of the original medals that they were copied from. Merry xmas Clive. EDIT; In 1849 the world's most famous electrotype medal was made for the 1815 Battle of Waterloo after medallist Benedetto Pistrucci (1784-1855) had taken three decades to model it. Pinches had to electrolytically cast it because it was too large to strike with a pair of dies. In 1851 William E. DuBois (1810-1881) begins using electrolysis at the U.S. Mint according to Kenneth Bressett. (Thanks to Julians post below: the date is now 1840 for electrotypes done at the U.S. Mint by Chief Coiner Franklin Peale.) In 1860 DuBois replicated the 1804 dollar by electrolysis.

LOUIS XVI ROI DE F. NE EN 1754 MORT EN 1793 (Duvivier) LOUIS XVII ROI DE FR. NE EN 1785 MORT EN 1795 (N.Tiolier) M.ANTOIN.REINE DE FR. N.EN 1755 M.EN 1793 (Duvivier) DE B.CONDE DUC D'ENG. NE EN 1772 MORT EN 1804. Louis de Bourbon Condé, duc d'Enghien. (Gatteaux) ELISABETH DE FRANCE NEE 1764 M.EN 1794 (?) C.F.DUC DE BERRY NE EN 1778 MORT EN 1820 (Gayrard, Dubois,?) arranged around HENRI IV ROI DE FRAN. NE EN 1558 MORT EN 1610 (Droz) LEVEQUE(Pierre?) EDITEUR, this is a gilt 56mm unifaced galvano/electrotype, one of a collection I have acquired, they are all of superb quality & I will post them later. Would you call 7 Bourbon death medals in 1 overkill? They were all tragic deaths. I have been unable to find an example online & have no reference for this compilation medal. EDIT Found the reverse description. REVERSE: LA FRANCE STANDING OVER ALTER WITH "A LA MEMOIRE DE HENRI IV ET DES AUG. MEMBRE - DE LA FAMILLE ROYALE QUI ONT PERI - VICTIMES DE LA REVOLUTION - 1820" . IN EXERGUE BELOW. AROUND THE EDGE: "LE SANG DE VOS ROIS CRIE.ET NEST POINT ÉCOUTÉ.ROMPEX, ROMPEX TOUT PACTE AVEC L'IMPIÉTÉ"

CHECK THIS LINK The dates known are 1927, 1936, 1955 and 1957; all but the last are seldom met with.

Thanks Clive. The Mint struck other official mint medals for sale & presentation at the exhibition but they also struck at least 2 for other companies, EDIT: whether any companies actually struck their own medals there is something I am not aware of Noble struck their medal there. By Percy Metcalfe, this one is for EDIT: this was struck by Noble Industries at the exhibition(BHM): Noble Industries, first struck dated 1924 is BHM#4195 CC. This, dated 1925 is BHM#4204 C. AE 37mm. Struck at the Exhibition, the planchets had been chemically treated prior to striking to give a colourising effect. This example looks far better in the hand as you can tilt it and the full beauty becomes clear(difficult to show in a pic), sadly most of these that you see for sale have lost their original lustre, this one retains it. The Mond Nickel Company Ltd, unlisted in BHM undated, struck from pure nickel for the British Empire Exhibition 1924-1925 45mm by PM (Percy Metcalfe 1895-1970) Rare. Obv: helmeted head of warrior (Britannia) right, holding trident, below, part of a globe featuring a deer(springbok?), beaver, kangaroo and tiger,(for South Africa, Canada, Australia & India) Rev: THE/ MOND / NICKEL / COMPANY / LTD / NICKEL 99.9% plain edge.

Silver BHM#4192 Obv. Britannia seated right striking a coin. BRITANNIA MONETA(British Mint). Rev. View of the mint London. .THE. .ROYAL. .MINT. .LONDON. AR CC; AE CC. 36mm. Designed by John Langford Jones. Both the silver & bronze were struck with a matt finish. Though the medals themselves give no clue as to why or when they were struck, they were struck at the Royal Mint stand at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 & 1925. 2,402 were struck in 1924 & a further 122 in 1925, these numbers are for both the bronze & silver combined. The bronze sold for 1s/6d and the 1 troy ounce of .925 silver for 3s/6d. The obverse image has since been used for various Mint trial dies, which sometimes leads even dealers to mislist these 1924/25 exhibition medals as trial pieces, especially as the medals themselves give no indication of their origins.HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT

You are in luck OFFICIAL CATALOGUE this was quite a unique exhibition in that it was for showcasing foreign products, not American ones. There is a 'So-Called Dollar' for the same event http://www.so-calleddollars.com/Events/American_Exhibition_of_Foreign_Products.html

I posted this medal a few years ago & thought I should update it with some additional info that I have since discovered. Obv: TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.1783. SEPt 3d SIGNED AT PARIS.FRANCE. 4 Men around a table. H.M. above exergue. Rev: FOREIGN EXHIBITION. BOSTON, MASS. U.S.A. OPENED SEPTEMBER 3d 1883 29mm WM. MA-BO-26 Trade Token, Boston, Massachusettes(page 675 in United States Tokens 1700-1900 by Rulau, 4th edition) The listing in Rulau does not mention the initials, HM, or a die-sinker. I think that the H.M. could be for Henry Mitchell a Boston Die-sinker & gem engraver. He made all the dies for the stamped envelopes of the United States for a great many years. The Maine State Agricultural Society medal was one of the first he cut, having been done sometime before the civil war. Henry Mitchell does use HM(Rulau). Another of his medals was for the Philadelphia 1876 Exhibition. Another the Shield of Harvard 1902. So the date(1883) fits his active period & it being a Boston medal is another pointer towards Mitchell, also I can find no other candidate for the HM in that period.

With apologies to Chrissie Hynde & the Pretenders:....SO SPECIAL...I GOTTA HAVE SOME OF YOUR ATTENTION HAMMERED, GIVE IT TO ME

It is Zephyrus, with puffed cheeks, he represents the west wind the bringer of light spring and early summer breezes. I assume he is depicted blue to indicate cooler winds as opposed to summer's hot southern breezes. The nymph Chloris, who he is grasping, is associated with spring, flowers and new growth "as she talks, her lips breathe spring roses". EDIT: I found nothing offence in your question, you even said just kidding re the zombie, some Hindu Gods are depicted blue so I cannot personally see anything wrong or stereotypical, oh well

A wonderful field of collecting.

GottahaveArt

Post, post #56789 people will be asking..........Art, where art thou

Welcome It is Queen Victoria, need size to know if they are pennies, halfpennies(unless you can read it on the reverse) etc, CHECK THIS LINK for lots of examples

Great Toronto notes Saor Alba & a fascinating post

Very nice

I have added the details to the original post Art, though apart from one being unlisted not much to add.

These type of small medal/medalet were often sold both with or without a hole. The holed ones were sometimes supplied with a ribbon that was threaded through the hole so it could be worn. As a general rule(in this era) if the hole is very neat it means that the medal was supplied holed, if the hole is crudely done it was done after market with a nail punched through so the owner could hang it from a ribbon or chain etc to wear. Here is an unholed example of BHM 1853 the third medal down posted above AE. Silvered R. 29mm. The medals are the same size, 29mm, the images posted are not. Here are two more holed medals from a previous post BHM# #1862 RRR. Brass 24mm. Unlisted, almost as struck. Brass 24mm. The last one I promise Queen Victoria Coronation Medal 1838. Unlisted in this size or metal. Same design as BHM#1861 RR. but that is brass 24mm. This is WM. 33mm so extremely rare.

It has been a while since I posted any Vics, so here are 2 that have lying around for quite sometime. Nothing special but they are nice clean strikes, still in good condition. BHM 1828 Br 25mm R. The description in Brown states 'seated right' everything else matches so I believe it is just a mistake as clearly she is seated left. If not this is an unlisted reverse. The clipped planchet is pre-strike not post-strike damage. EDIT. Because I have since seen an example of BHM#1828 I now know that this is an unlisted reverse. BHM 1858 Br 24mm C. EDIT: Here are 2 more I just discovered that had gone missing. BHM# 1853 R. AE. R. AE. silvered R. 29mm. Unlisted in Br. Unlisted in BHM.

If I had to chose just one I would go for the copper as the body of the archer is just sublimely engraved. Mind I would not say no to the argent

Herakles for me

Well I am happy to have voted for your rouble I think the info you supplied might have influenced me somewhat in my very tough decision. Any one would be a worthy winner, but alas only one can win.