2kg World coins

czark · December 08, 2013, 01:01:33 PM

Hi all,

Sorting 2kg worth of world coins.

Would anyone have any info on the following two? Not sure if these are coins or commemorative tokens of some kind.

1mm smaller than a 20c

Same size as the 5c
Reverse is almost identical with a slightly different face.

Fulvio · December 08, 2013, 01:28:13 PM

Quote from: 'czark' pid='36556' dateline='1386469893'commemorative tokens of some kind.

Not coins, I'd say. Can't even spell "Queen" right.

triplewitch · December 08, 2013, 01:40:52 PM

Not coins because there is no country, date, denomination, etc. After doing a Google for 'V B coin', I found this thread: http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=42185 which eventually lead here: http://www.vanbrooktokens.com/availabletokendesigns.htm
Apparently it is a token made by this Van Brook company listed in the 'General Purpose Designs' section.

Fulvio · December 08, 2013, 01:49:31 PM

Quote from: 'triplewitch' pid='36561' dateline='1386472252'Apparently it is a token made by this Van Brook company listed in the 'General Purpose Designs' section.

Good bit of detective work, mate.

That's the one.

triplewitch · December 08, 2013, 01:54:14 PM

And the other one is next to it (#836).

czark · December 08, 2013, 03:23:09 PM

Fulvio I didn't even realise that was an 'O' Haha
Thanks triplewitch! Great website to ID tokens. Never realised it was so big.

Fulvio · December 08, 2013, 03:54:42 PM

Quote from: 'triplewitch' pid='36563' dateline='1386473054'And the other one is next to it (#836).

DOH! Silly me assumed it was two sides of the same coin. I should learn to read, eh?