Is there any significance to the use of coins for the drone trigger. Both my sets of drones have a gold coin with a threaded centre to open a close the airway
I just wondered if maybe the date was important.
Bryan
A Gold Coin … wow! Usually it would be whatever the maker had in his Pocket.
On my 1850’s Harrington set there is a Farthing token from a shop in Cork city… ( for those too young to remember these ‘tokens’ they were given in change by shops and only redeemable at the same shop, so that you would come in again to buy something else… in a way they were like a modern day loyalty card).
The other coin I recall well was a ’ Liverpool Half Penny’ dated 1781 which was used on John Wayland’s Egan set. This led Wayland to believe the set was made at that date and thus assumed the maker to be Kenna… unfortunately he did not take into account the 50+ years of wear on the coin!
I dont recognise this coin .
and heres another use of a coin
RORY
I’ve mostly seen pennies. Although once I saw a quarter, but the pipemaker in question was knows for being ostentatious.
For the piper who has everything … The Royal Canadian Mint produces a 0.5 g coin in .999% pure gold. It’s the size of a penny and costs a little over $100.
Hi
Gold coin as in the colour Its just a generic term as in “pay in gold or paper money”
Thanks for the info I wonder how it started ? I just had this thought of the maker popping into the bank for
a coin dated the year of completion. Like a tree on the top of a completed house.
Just a quicky. I striped the drone barrel and blew out (air compressor) the airways i was concerned about blue tax etc lodging. Is there an optimum distance
for the trigger movement?
Bryan
That’s an Australian 1 cent coin, which are no longer in circulation. Everything is now rounded to 5 cents.
Cheers Tom , the other coin is an old Irish 3d.
Ireland 3 Pence 1928 to 1968
The Celtic harp has been on Irish coinage for centuries, but, from 1928 on, a strong animal theme has become prevalent. The three penny, or three pence, or 3d denomination has a rabbit. Other denominations have other animals: birds, dogs, pigs, horses, bulls, and even fish.
The 3d coins are made of nickel and most carry low value. Coins in excellent condition, like the one in our picture, command a few US dollars for collectors who want to add nice looking specimens to their collections. Coins dated before 1939 carry the legend SAORSTAT EIREANN (Irish Free State) and are more valuable.
RORY
It’s not a rabbit, it’s a hare. The obverse of the 3d was based on a design by English artist Percy Metcalf. It caused controversy when someone realised it was a breed of hare native to Wales, and not found in Ireland.
Splitting hairs, coining phrases, harping on.
Where will it all end ?
> Usually it would be whatever the maker had in his Pocket.
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> That’s an Australian 1 cent coin
Those were the days - when a full Wooff set cost something like $AUD1500…and the drone valve didn’t add much to that…
Lucky I could afford the ‘one cent’ at those prices!!
Those were the days indeed, when only raw enthusiasm drove me on. Days spent scouring charity shops to clothe my kids and a second hand pair of runners were my only shoes. Nights spent shooting rabbits ( and once a Hare) for food… living rent free in an old stone house infested with snakes, rats and possums… shitting in a bucket… driving an old car that I had made out of three dead ones… Oh! What adventures indeed.
Port Fairy 1981, I remember it well.
Geoff.
Luxery
IMG_0234 by rouse_j, on Flickr
A 1950 British Half Penny on what appears to be a Matt Kiernan main stock, not sure where he would have gotten that one or wether it was added after. I also have a Finbar McLoughlan set with a contemporary 2p.
Love the coins and stories.
Pipe down!
Actually, it’s spelt “COYNE”… 
Sorry,
Andy