Talk:Coins of Lundy

The subject of this artucle should be "(Trade) tokens of Lundy", as coins are officially issued. In this case, a judge decided that the pieces of Lundy were not official issues. The term token is accpted in numismatics to mean unofficial pieces used as money. As quite a few tokens were struck only for collectors, the expression "trade token" is often used to indicate that the piece was meant to and did circulate. This is true for the 1929 issue (as is evident from the report of superintendant Bolt). However, it is not true for the 1965 restrikes.

The reason I am hesitatant to change this is that marketing people have successfully muddied the issue, so that people have started using the word "coin" indiscriminately for all tokens, medals and coin-like fantasies and I don't want to fight windmills. Moreover, there may be many more instances in Wikipedia where the word "coin" is used incorrectly from a purist point of view. Is it worth it?

--Peterk2 12:07, 23 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't know anything about the issue. I do know that we have an article for Civil War token, which seem to have been used as money -- I don't know how officially. Also, you can check WikiProject Numismatics/Articles and WikiProject Numismatics/Exonumia articles which list all articles in the project, to get a better idea of how it's being used now (probably inconsistently). Ingrid 18:12, 23 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that reaction, Ingrid. In fact, I'd put up something on the discussion page of WikiProject Numismatics/Assessment. The US civil war tokens are indeed tokens (while the British civil war pieces are coins). I fear that it is used inconsistently, but I also fear that cleaning things up is not something I could do and maintain alone...

--Peterk2 08:29, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Lundycoin.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 12:35, 8 March 2008 (UTC)