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Welcome! Just a note to keep in mind that if postally importing from abroad, VAT may be levied on packages exceeding £15 in value, and in addition, there's also a Royal Mail handling fee of £8, so you may wish to combine purchases since paying the £8 fee on a package that just exceeds £15 in value would make your purchase much more expensive.

It's an imitation spade guinea, often made for use as (gaming) tokens. Someone with more expertise should pop in shortly...

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I don't think the dragon / imperial coinage was ever demonetized - but rather, it disappeared from circulation over time. The copper coinage of China of the time was a sort of "bullion" coinage in that its value relative to silver was not fixed. A silver dollar (.890 fine) could be equal to perhaps about $1.20 in minor (10c/20c) silver coins of which Imperial issues were .800, and Republican KT/GD 20c issues were notable for being of questionable fineness (I usually assume .500-.700 would be the norm). It was not unusual for standard coppers [10 cash] to trade at over 200 to the silver dollar in Shanghai. HK of course also had a silver-based currency, but the minor coinage was fiat: 100 bronze cents or 10 (.800) silver dimes both were equal to and freely exchangeable for a (.900) British trade dollar. As such, using fake dies to convert Chinese cents / 10 cash into HK cents would result in a nominal profit of over 100% prior to accounting for labour and expense of making the dies. As for fake HK coins, I've yet to see a copper one thus far (that was identifiable as such). I have encountered a fake Victorian 10c (silverplated brass), Edwardian 10c (appears silver but font on English legends incorrect), and 1960 $1 (lead).

Upper right is almost certainly (99% confident) fake, and upper left is rather suspicious. An odd lot, definitely!

I believe that HK hasn't struck its own coins after the first 1860s issues.

I regret to say that it is a very poor quality modern counterfeit.

An interesting endeavor! For lead you may be interested in getting a contemporary forgery of a British silver coin - every now and then I'll come across a shilling, florin, or halfcrown from 1817 until the 1920s or so that's made of lead.

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The "1000" likely suggests that it's pure silver, almost certainly made in Germany post-WWII. Lots of replica coins and medallic pieces in fine silver made and sold there.

Ottoman Empire, Constaninople Mint, 25 Kurush, .917 (22k) gold, 1.8g, 21st year of Abdul Hamid II (1887-88)

Welcome! You may wish to adjust the macro settings on your camera to get crisper pictures since for some it'd hard to see the details. #2... does look like a farthing. #3... appears to be Queen Elizabeth I #4... appears to be French #5... is a Roman antonianius from the mid-late 3rd century. That may well be Pegasus. Clearer pictures of both sides would help with a more precise attribution #7... Japan, 100 yen, 1964. .600 silver. Circulated specimens usually trade for their bullion value, which is about $2.50-$3.

Of note, Peace dollar fakes are usually hard to spot from pictures - I've been fooled before.

"1928" and "1879" from the first group are suspect by virtue of being in the group, rest appear to be counterfeits.

Most probably is a broken part of a costume jewelry bracelet, or necklace perhaps - even some made by well known designer houses use rather crude portraits of her majesty. Play money may also be a possibility.

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I understand that yes, "mil" is a unit of thickness as well as a general term for 1/1000 (occasionally seen in currency, if if I remember correctly, in Canada is monetarily defined as $0.001), but the question here is "mills" M-I-L-L-S, as seen on a lot of private mint products.

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Mystic is pretty much the stamp world's equivalent of Littleton.

It appears to actually be the punched-out core of a 10 peso, probably one of the silver ones from the color, c.1992-5.

Welcome! It appears to be a Roman provincial coin. For our American friends, the 2p is about the same size as a SBA/Sac $1.

As a general rule of thumb, modern Chinese (NCLT and to a lesser extent, all milled coinage i.e. post-1889 in UNC) sells for multiples of KM, and cash coins sell for fractions of KM. Mid grade circulated milled coinage generally is about the only stuff that pretty much sells for cat.

Plating is done chemically and doesn't involve gold leaf, which would be gilding. Regardless, as an undefined term, "100 mills" to one manufacturer or retailer may not be the same as "100 mills" to another. I can only repeat my previous advice to ignore gold content (since any would be very limited in value, perhaps several pence) and simply buy an item if you will enjoy it.