Improvements in or connected with Imitation Coins and Medals.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left. 27th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 17th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Imitation Coins and Medals.
I, GUSTAV WALTHER BÖSENBERG, of the firm of J. F. Bösenberg, Manu-
facturer, of Leipzig, in the Kingdom of Saxony, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object, to reproduce ancient or modern coins in such
a manner, that the imitations are suitable for collections and for instruction in
schools, but will not easily lend themselves to fraudulent purposes.
The face of the coin is accurately copied or reproduced by electro-plating,
stereotyping, stamping or pressing, in suitable metals, alloys, celluloid, paper-stuff
or any other suitable material.
In order to avoid abuses and to show both sides of the coins at the same time,.
when they are exhibited in albums or sheets, without removing the coins from the
album or other base, each reproduction contains only one side of the coin, that is,
either the face or the reverse, but not both, while the opposite side is a plane
surface or ornamented, and may be provided with an eyelet, hook, pin, adhesive
substance, or other suitable means for securing the coin to an album or other base.
The edge of the coin may be bent down, so as to form a circular flange or groove
for securing in it a disc or coin of corresponding size, for instance an imitation coin
representing the reverse side of the original.
Instead of reproducing the face and the reverse side of an ancient coin on two
separate imitation coins, they may be reproduced side by side on a plate and the
latter also provided with explanatory remarks or ornamentations.
Dated this 28th day of July 1892.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Imitation Coins and Medals.
I, GUSTAY WALTHER BÖSENBERG, of the firm of J. F. Bösenberg, Manu-.
facturer, of Leipzig, in the Kingdom of Saxony, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object, to reproduce ancient or modern coins in such a
manner, that the imitations are suitable for collections and instruction in schools,.
but will not easily lend themselves to fraudulent purposes.
The face of the coin is accurately copied or reproduced by electro plating,
stereotyping, stamping or pressing, in suitable metals, alloys, celluloid, paper-pulp,
paper or any other suitable material.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 represents the obverse side of a coin, together with a section and the back
of a solid imitation coin corresponding to the same.
Fig. 2 shows the reverse side and a section corresponding to Fig. 1.
Figs. 3 and 4 show the obverse and reverse side of a coin, together with sections
of the corresponding hollow imitation coins.
Fig. 5 is a section of a hollow coin provided with a fastening pin for fixing the
same to a support like a brooch.

page_text: Fig. 7 shows the obverse and the reverse sides of a coin formed on or out of the
same plate.
Fig. 6 is a section of the same.
In order to avoid abuses, and to show both sides of the coins at the same time,
when they are exhibited in albums or sheets, without removing the coins from the
album or other base, each reproduction contains only one side of the coin, that is,
either the obverse or the reverse, but not both, while the opposite side G of the
coin is a plane surface, or ornamented; or provided with an eyelet, hook, pin,
adhesive substance, or other suitable means for securing the coin to an album or
other base, as indicated by Figs. 5 and 6. For making a hollow imitation coin, the
face is formed of thin sheet metal or other suitable material, and the edge is bent
down, so as to produce a circular flange for securing in it a flanged disc of
corresponding size, (by means of radial pressure) or a coin representing the
reverse side of the original. In this case the finished imitation coin has two
faces, and (being hollow) it can be easily distinguished from a real coin by its
lightness.
Instead of reproducing the face and the reverse side of an ancient coin on two
separate imitation coins, they may be reproduced side by side on a plate P, and
the latter may also provided with explanatory remarks or ornamentations, as
indicated by Fig. 7. Instead of one pair, two or more pairs may be formed on
one plate.
The face and the back of the imitation coin may be flat or bulged, and may
receive a thin coating of gold, silver, nickel, aluminium, copper or other metal, and
the edge or circumference may be decorated, or printed on, so as to render the
imitation more complete.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is:-
1. Imitation coins produced by electro-plating, stereotyping, stamping, or
pressing, from metal, alloys or compositions of metals, paper pulp, paper, celluloid
or other suitable material, with or without external coating, said coins having only
one face imitating either the obverse or the reverse side of the original, while the
opposite side or back is plain or ornamental, without imitating one of the sides of
the original coin, substantially as described and for the purposes specified.
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2. A one-sided imitation coin provided at the back with a fastening pin, an
eyelet, or binding substance, substantially as described.
3. One-sided imitation coins formed of thin sheets having flanges or turned-up
edges adapted to connect them with similarly formed imitation coins, substantially
as described.
4. Imitation coins formed in pairs out of plates P, so as to show or represent
the obverse and the reverse side of the coin on the same side of one plate,
which may or may not have flanges and explanatory remarks, substantially as
described.
Dated this 25th day of April 1893.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
433, Strand, London, Agents.