A longshot!!

Hi everyone

I bought a small bag of coins for next to nothing that I think are worth less than what I paid for them (£2) due to the extremely poor condition!!

I think they may have come out of the ornamental lake at Chatsworth house when it was recently drained, and hundreds of thousands of coins were retrieved and mostly banked!!

I actually bought some stamps from the lad and he mentioned these coins! I think he may have helped with the retrieval (he was handicapped).

There were a few of the cartwheel pennies, some young Victoria half and full pennies, and a few others that I have no idea what they are at all!!

All were covered in Verdigris  

Diameter is 19.25mm



Sorry about the condition of the coin but I think it's been underwater for around 150 years  

Some of the coins are scraped and mostly are copper (orange colour) this may be brass as it shines yellow.



Kind regards, John  

Check spade guinea under tokens, I can guarantee you'll find it.

Here are the other coins, some are still quite thick and heavy but mostly seem to have eroded away  



This is a strange one, It's almost completely worn away but is yellow like the first one (but darker, may be bronze)  but much larger in diameter, a similar size to an old penny (UK 1d)..



All that I can make out is a rim of impressed Triangles around the periphery!!



Cheers, John  

WOW!!

That was extremely fast!!

Many thanks Kenny  


Kind regards, John   

Crumbs!!

Have I searched correctly, 1/2 Golden Guinea????   

Through my watchmakers loupe I can make out Georgivs 111 Del Gratia!!

Would there be a way of removing the verdigris to be able to see the coin or would this be a professional job??

Regards, John  

No they were gambling tokens made of brass

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?r=guinea&c=&cj=y&cu=y&cat=y&mode=simplifie&p=1&e=&d=&km=&i=&v=&m=&a=&t=&dg=&w=&g=

Quote: neilithicNo they were gambling tokens made of brass

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?r=guinea&c=&cj=y&cu=y&cat=y&mode=simplifie&p=1&e=&d=&km=&i=&v=&m=&a=&t=&dg=&w=&g=

Ha ha ha!!

I'm not very good with the search engine!!    

EDIT- I just looked again and the brass ones are 22mm according to the info, this one I have is only 19.25mm  



Thanks, John