'Notes & Queries' has always been a feature of the Bulletin, allowing members to post queries and to benefit from the research or knowledge of others.  This page is intended to operate alongside those queries raised in the Bulletin, and will hopefully reach a wider audience.  However, answers will normally be published in the Bulletin.

Members are welcome to resend items which were previously published in the Bulletin for which no solution has been obtained.  - Please quote the original reference number.

Categories - listed on the left - will be fluid to start with until a pattern develops.

Pub Checks
On behalf of the Society, Neil Todd maintains a longstanding list of Unlocated Beer House, Hotel, Inn and Tavern Checks - see menu on the left.   8 items added.

RECHE PHENING
I am an archaeologist working in New Jersey, USA. I recently found what I believe to be a German Jetton, possibly dating from the eighteenth century.  I'm unsure of the date.  The coin is very thin with silver plating.  the reverse contains an image of a sun casting its rays over an elk around which are the words "RECHE PHENING".  Below the elk are the letters I.I.L. [or I. L. L. ~? GTS]  The face of the coin contains the bust of a man with a short pony tail in what appears to be military garb.  This side is corroded and I can't make out the words around the bust.  Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,     Michael J. Gall, RPA

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Langside PAIDOTECHNIK
Looks late Victorian, brass 30mm.  From the I Corinthian quote on the reverse I guess it may be a Theological College.  Typing PAIDOTECHNIK into Google produced a plethora of hits, ALL relating to the listing of the piece on Ebay!  Is this Langside in Glasgow, and what was the PAIDOTECHNIK?  
MiCobwright@aol.com 
[1 Cor.III.9= "For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building" -GTS]

Alexander Giles, Edinburgh
I recently acquired the two pieces to the right from Ebay.  They are 24mm, copper or bronze, quite thin and uniface.  Does anyone know their purpose?  Who was Giles and what is the significance of 'R' and 'H' ?
Cobwright.  MiCobwright@aol.com
 

Columbia Market
As editor of the Leaden Tokens Telegraph newsletter, I am sometimes asked questions about pieces which are not lead.  One of my correspondents has recently found, quite a few months apart, two well-used Columbia farthings in the same field near Hemel Hempstead.  We presume that they were simply employed as supplements to the regal coinage, but does anyone else please have any information about Columbia findspots?
David Powell   david@powell8041.freeserve.co.uk
 

Unusual Neal Piece !
I wonder if anyone knows what this is?  I thought possibly colonial but Bob Lyall doesn't know it.
Bronze 28mm, reverse 1d, NEAL MAKER 19 PERCIVAL ST.
Cobwright.   MiCobwright@aol.com
 
Neil Todd suggests:- "This may be a token of the Black Bull, Metropolitan Cattle Market, Islington, but it will take a lot more research to prove it!"