Readers Digest advertising tokens

[malj1]

1977 Reader's Digest Presidential Coin Collection

Free for you and minted in solid brass  ...big deal!

Here too is a link to some Readers Digest tokens.

[redwine]

Still if the price was right, free sounds good, I'd have them.
So was that an offer Mal 

[malj1]

Just quoting RD's comments from the card.

A sprat to catch a mackerel?

[redwine]

I would have been that fish if I lived in America!

[andyg]

(picture borrowed from Redwine)

RD-PD-65

Readers Digest Prize Draw No.65?
No.65 in Canada was in 2000 according to the web, but were British prize draw numbered in a similar fashion? - I think they were but have not found anything.

[redwine]

Makes perfect sense Andy 

[malj1]

This set has just appeared on eBay.

Readers Digest Coin Set dated 1948 but I doubt they were issued then as it would have to be after the 1971 decimalisation.

Quote:
A set of boxed pre-decimal British Readers Digest coins.
Includes: Half Crown, Two Shillings, Shilling, Threepence,
Penny and Half-Penny coins.

[Figleaf]

Weird advertising gimmick. None of the real coins is especially hard to find. The best part would be the box. You could use it to re-assemble a 1953 proof set from the many loose 1953 proof coins floating around and sell it to people collecting coin packaging.

Peter

[malj1]

They may have spoiled the box by writing Readers Digest in large letters on the outside. 

[davidrj]

looks like the box has a transparent plastic lid, and the coins appear to be dated 1945 not 48, so maybe part of a commemoration of the end of WWII, i'd quite like the penny though

[malj1]

... i'd quite like the penny though

The obverse has the Readers Digest logo etc. rather than the King's head. 

[bagerap]

I can't remember if I've asked this before but, has anyone ever seen a Reader's Digest coin change hands for real money? Other than in the usual mixed lot wherein I suspect most people find them.

[malj1]

I shall have to take more notice and watch some! Certainly I have several, quite a large bag-full in fact, but I have never intentionally bought any as these were all acquired from job lots.

[malj1]

A new type added from redwine.

50mm
50.27g
Medal aligned

[malj1]

READER'S DIGEST WORLDWIDE consimilar brass 30.8mm

One that I don't recall having seen before.