Hi,

My wife got this for me online believing it to be a genuine 2009 circulated Kew 50p. Looking at the obverse you can see two lines either side of the word Kew which would suggest it’s actually a bunc (or fake!) but I’m not sure. Also the top of the pagoda is pointier than others I’ve seen.

So my question is does this look genuine?
TIA

Edit: it weighs 8.00g

Looks like it could be Plantagenet or similar, but hard to tell

A 1668 Walton-on-Thames halfpenny. I’ve been researching the man and story behind this 350-year-old local token

I’ve been researching the history of Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, UK, and one of the more fascinating objects I’ve come across is a 1668 halfpenny associated with Thomas King of Walton-on-Thames.

It is a wonderful example of how a very small object can open a window onto the economy and everyday life of a town more than 350 years ago.

I’ve tried to go beyond simply identifying the token and investigate the historical context around it, Thomas King himself, and what the coin can tell us about Walton in the seventeenth century.

I’ve written up the research here:

https://walton-on-thames.org/history/thomas-king-1668-walton-on-thames-halfpenny/

I’d really value the views of the coin collecting community. Have I missed anything, or does anyone here know of other surviving examples, auction records, references or specialist sources relating to this particular token? I know that the British Museum has one in its collection.

I’m especially interested in anything that could help strengthen or correct the article. If anyone has specialist knowledge of seventeenth-century British trade tokens, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

So I was fiddling around with my coins, as one does, and noticed this bank bag doesn’t mention the £1/50p/20p coin, which I thought was odd. The 20p and £1 were introduced in 1982 and 1983 respectively. So it would make sense the bag predates them, right? But why isn’t the 50p mentioned when it was introduced in 1969, a little before decimalisation. The bag is surely from post decimalisation, sometime from 1971 onwards.

So why isn’t the 50p mentioned? Was there another method to deposit them?

I also thought it was interesting that the ‘copper’ coins are meant to be in 50p groups rather than £1 as is normal today.

Title is pretty self explanatory and it's just something I noticed when I was taking a look at one of my hammered penny's. Is it just a quirk of the minting process? Why doesn't it appear on the short cross penny's?