Spade Guinea Gaming Token - George III George Yorke Iliffe and Frederick Gardner, Birmingham

Location United Kingdom
Year 1760-1820
Type Utility token
Composition Brass
Weight 3 g
Diameter 24 mm
Thickness 1.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Edge Reeded
Period
Notice
Reference(s)
Obverse description Copy of a 1787 gold Half Guinea.
Obverse script Latin
Obverse lettering GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA
(Translation: `George III by the grace of God`)
Reverse description Copy of a 1787 gold Half Guinea as noted above, but with different, nonsense lettering. 1701 (Date not in the reign of George III, who had not even been born by that year)
Reverse script Latin
Reverse lettering G.Y.I.ET.F.G.REX.S.UF.ST.DS.T.M.S.ET.
(Translation: G Y I ET F G [REX] SUF ST DS T M S ET[C.] `George Yorke Iliffe and Frederick Gardner, Suffolk Street (Birmingham), diesinkers, tool makers, stampers, et cetera`)
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Mintage
Numisquare ID 2016658500
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