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A rummage in old boxes turned up this Australian florin of 1926, rather crudely stamped '25' and drilled to take a cord. It obviously marks the 25th anniversary of the federation of the formerly separate Australian states and the opening of their national parliament, but I have no idea how it wound up in my house. My forebears had no close Australian connections - though it's probably hard to find an Orkney family with none at all - so the all-important 'provenance' is lacking. The red cord loop is too small to pass over the head of anyone but a baby, so it doesn't seem to have been intended as a pendant. Any ideas?
Picture added on 09 February 2012 at 20:12
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