Coins and Tokens

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Queen Victoria Coronation Medal, 1838. Designed by Benedetto Pistrucci

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Lancastershire Lancaster D&H 59c

aka Kentucky Cent

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1859 US Indian Head cent. 1st year of issue. Copper- nickel.

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Somersetshire Frome Selwood 1 shilling 1811 D71

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`1798 Perthshire Perth DH11

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1857 Flying Eagle Cent

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1797 2 pence coin minted by Boulton and Watt at the Soho Mint. Each coin consisted of 2oz of copper

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Silver Beach Carousel, St. Joseph, MI 2022

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Warwichshire Birmingham Alston’s D&H-63

Birm Poor House Halfpenny

1796

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1723 South Seas Company shilling

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An Anglo-Saxon shilling with a figure in profile modeled off a diademed bust of a Late Roman emperor on the front, and double emperor busts on either side of a globe topped with a statue of winged Victory (also modeled off Late Roman coinage) on the reverse.

Cast out of gold.

Made in the 660s by the Anglo-Saxons in England.

Currently held at the British Museum.

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A pseudoimperial tremissis with a bust of the Byzantine emperor Justin I on the front, and a very abstracted Victory advancing to the right on the reverse.

Cast out of gold.

Made in the late 6th century by the Merovingian Franks in Gaul.

Currently held at the American Numismatic Society.

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A pseudoimperial coin with a bust of the Byzantine emperor Justin II on the front, and Victory advancing to the right on the reverse.

Cast out of gold.

Made in the late 6th century by the Visigoths in Spain.

Currently held at the American Numismatic Society.

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A Carolingian denarius with a classicizing imperial bust of emperor Louis the Pious on the front, and a ship being oared on a tumultuous sea on the reverse.

Cast out of silver.

Made in the 810s at La Caloterrie in the northern Carolingian domains (near Belgium).

Currently held at the American Numismatic Society.