This is strange hand made coin spoon.
At the finial is a twisted heavy silver wire which is soldered onto a twisty stem
I suspect that it was supposed to be a bow or something.
Perhaps this was a school project.
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The bowl appears to be a coin featuring a profile of Queen Victoria
Part of the back of the coin has been deliberately removed leaving only the border decoration.
The bowl front features a left facing profile of Queen Victoria
The bowl obverse coin details have been deliberately removed and the back is
engraved "Victoria BC" along with some tiny branches with leaves.
This relatively tiny demi sized spoon features an unusual simulated gold nugget star design at the finial
I spent several hours researching this spoon. I finally figured out that the coin was made by Britain for use in Hong Kong.
This silver coin then had the back obliterated and was engraved with "Victoria B.C." The spoon was then gold plated.
That is a lot of work for a souvenir spoon so it was probably a custom design.
Later I was working on my British coin spoons and I found another spoon with a very similar image of Queen Victoria,
but this coin was intact and was not gold washed.
The crown on the two coins is slightly different, but they are close enough for me to believe that they are substantially the same coin.
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