Description
Great Britain 1701 Spade Guinea Gaming Token. 3.66g, 25mm.
Obverse: Copy of a 1787 gold Half Guinea, but with different, nonsense lettering. 1701 (Date not in the reign of George III, who had not even been born by that year).
Reverse: G.Y.I.ET.F.G.REX.S.UF.ST.DS.T.M.S.ET. (George Yorke Iliffe and Frederick Gardner, Suffolk Street (Birmingham), diesinkers, tool makers, stampers, et cetera).
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