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Thanks Pat, it's 79k. For some reason my (digital) D&H goes no further than 79i.

Although there are hundreds of varieties of these medals, this is something I've not seen before. The central Royal crest is supported by five shield roundels, and I can't identify any of them.

I think this has to be a circulating forgery. Can't find this /////// edge attributed to any known authentic piece.

It will be sold eventually, but not before I know all I can about this man. I do know that he met with Aleister Crowley and other figures of the occult.

You're right, it looks very like the Liver bird.

This is possibly one of the most fascinating stories I've ever researched.

It starts with a man called William Henry Quilliam (10 April 1856 – 23 April 1932), who changed his name to Abdullah Quilliam and later Henri Marcel Leon or Haroun Mustapha Leon, and was a 19th-century convert from Christianity to Islam, noted for founding England's first mosque and Islamic centre.

Quilliam converted to Islam in 1887 after visiting Morocco to recover from an illness. Quilliam purchased numbers 8, 11 and 12 Brougham Terrace, Liverpool, following his conversion, through a donation from Nasrullah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan. 8 Brougham Terrace became the Liverpool Muslim Institute, the first functioning mosque in Britain. He also opened a boarding school for boys and a day school for girls, as well as an orphanage, Medina House, for non-Muslim parents who could not look after their children but agreed for them to be brought up as Muslims. In addition, the Institute hosted educational classes covering a wide range of subjects, and included a museum and science laboratory. It opened on Christmas Day, 1889.

By june 1913 he was Secrétaire Général of the Société Internationale De Philologie Sciences Et Beaux-Arts which he claimed had been founded in 1875 for "the advancement and encouragement of all branches of philology, science,literature, music and fine arts" by means of non-sectarian and apolitical lectures and debates.

He was an odd character, but a pivotal figure in the history of Islam in Britain.

Which brings me to the medal, of which I can discover nothing. It is uniface and bears an heraldic Griffin/Gryphon below which the legend:

1875-1925 MÉDAILLE COMMÉMORATIVE

And around which:

SOCIÉTÉ INTERNATIONALE DE PHILOLOGIE SCIENCES ET BEAUX-ARTS

Nickel, 30 mm.

And I'm really enjoying this too.

I agree on inumis, I've done very well on one purchase they'd wrongly ID'd. I find some of the prices on ebay.fr , ambitious.

It's this Frank:

http://www.gadoury.com/en/books/jetons-1991

Does anyone own a copy, and is it a worthwhile purchase?

The auction itself seems a bit shaky, but I'm keeping the catalogue for reference.

A good looking auction from Gadoury next month:

https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=3263&page=1

I need to save some money.

Possibly a clearer image and better lighting

I've just picked up this, also 17 mm, which appears to be gilded brass

British Historical Medals by Lawrence Brown, BHM 511a

It was made as jewelry.

I can't help you with the initials on the clasp, but the small mark on the reverse looks like a cornucopia, or in French corne d'abondance. It is the mark of the Paris Mint (Monnaie de Paris) and in this context could date your bracelet between 1880-1901.

Beut! I'm still looking for a good example, or indeed anything with ships.

I like this, but I'd love it without the wicked pin:

Having tested the density of the material, I now know it to be bronze with a lower tin content (probably around 8%)

Thanks Pat, I've seen similar but I'm sure they were Krauwinkel. It's not mine yet, but I'm hoping.

Standard crown and orb but with a Turks Head reverse. I've not seen this reverse on a Schultes jeton before, is it unusual?

Yes, the latter shot was taken in that rare British condition, sunshine.

Today, we have natural sunlight for a change, so this may be a better image:

Having pored over dozens of images of the real thing, I'm starting to think that mine was from the same dies.