[Tony Curnick]

I love the coins James....excellent going in the face of failure....never seems to amaze me how worn down some of the older coins are, you just don't see that in modern coins.

[Tony Curnick]

Why do they call that coin "the Duiwels penny?

[James Kraft]

Why do they call that coin "the Duiwels penny?

Hi Tony

The old boer folks used to believe that the devel carried a 3 pinted fork...... Hence with Britania at the back of these pennies holding a Trident, some outright called it the "devels penny / duiwels pennie.....Lol, gotta love them old folks

[James Kraft]

Why do they call that coin "the Duiwels penny?

Hi Tony

The old boer folks used to believe that the devel carried a 3 pinted fork...... Hence with Britania at the back of these pennies holding a Trident, some outright called it the "devels penny / duiwels pennie.....Lol, gotta love them old folks

This is what Wikipedia have to say:
The penny that was brought to the Cape Colony (in what is now South Africa) was a large coin — 36 mm in diameter, 3.3 mm thick and 1 oz (28 g) — and the twopence was correspondingly larger at 41 mm in diameter, 5 mm thick and 2 oz (57 g). On them was Britannia with a trident in her hand. The English called this coin the Cartwheel penny due to its large size and raised rim,[11] but the Capetonians (what citizens of Cape Town, South Africa call themselves) referred to it as the Devil's Penny as they assumed that only the Devil used a trident.[12] The coins were very unpopular due to their large weight and size.[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny

[Kobus]

Splended James awsome finds.
Kobus

[Wilhelm Ludik]

Congratulations James.

[Tom White]

Very nice JK you see the Lady loves you when I am not there Lol

[Cindy]

Hi all the hunt at the Selborne was very slow on Saturday but I did find a medal and this button

[Tom White]

Well done Cindy

[Wilhelm Ludik]

Nice piece of Afrikana you found Cindy - well done.

[James Kraft]

Well done Cindy.....Soon you will be outhunting Tom......Hehehe

[James Kraft]

Very nice JK you see the Lady loves you when I am not there Lol

Eish Boeta....... It was a battle.

[Kobus]

A perfect find congrats on that.
kobus

[Tony Curnick]

Thanks for the answer James now I know.....my son refers to them as wheel chair pennies because he though the the shield was the wheel to a wheel chair!

[Tony Curnick]

Sweet find Cindy!!....you gonna have to start hiding the batteries to your machine!!