Important British and World Coins

Miscellaneous, Horden, Mason & Edwards, Birmingham: Checks (4), viz. in bronze, Coinmaster press, h m e above, birmingham below, rev. if a cincinnati salesman can’t match this coin he’ll buy you a beer, edge plain, 20.5mm, 4.58g/6h; in cupro-nickel, Coinmaster press, h·m·e· coinmaster above, 1965 below, wreaths at sides, rev. h m e in angles of a press crankshaft, same legends around, edge grained, 23mm, 5.04g/12h; in nickel-brass, cincinnati group of companies around olympia 1968, rev. if a cincinnati group salesman can’t match this coin ask him for a beer, edge grained, 26mm, 9.06g/12h; in copper, Coinmaster press within dotted border, hme – coinmaster cincinnati around, rev. medieval moneyer with hammer preparing to strike a coin, ·+· of:fa· tornei around, edge grained, 26mm, 6.45g/12h; Cincinnati Milacron: Cupro-nickel checks (3), viz. Coinmaster press, coinmaster cincinnati milacron around, rev. flag-type symbol, mach 76 above, n.e.c. birmingham below, edge plain, 25mm, 6.29g/12h; globe, cincinnati milacron hme presses mint the world’s coins around, rev. four rolls of sheet metal, metalworking 78 international exhibition birmingham around, edge plain, 25mm, 6.54g/5h; similar, rev. mach 80 within swirls, edge plain, 25mm, 7.15g/2h [7]. First about very fine, others extremely fine and better (£60-80)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Joanna Tansley Collection of Patterns, Proofs and Coining Trials.

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Provenance:
Fifth and seventh Format FPL 3, February 2001 (8100, 8102).

Cincinnati began as a small machine shop in the downtown area of the city of the same name in Ohio, USA, in the mid 1860s. After World War II it took over the Birmingham press manufacturers Horden, Mason & Edwards, who had been approached by the Royal Mint in the early 1960s to prepare a specialist modern coining press suitable for the quantities of UK coins needed when the country changed over to a decimal system; the Mint estimated that 150 additional presses alone would be needed (Cooper, p.231). HME designed the Coinmaster, a forged steel press with a novel rotary feed plate, which was subsequently sold to many mints the world over. In 1969 the parent company name changed to Cincinnati Milacron, reflecting the rapid development of plastics and injection moulding in the company’s markets; the name was changed again to Milacron Inc in 1998