GEORGIVS coin meaning as medal?

This is a coin similar that I have to find and take a picture of, the one here is one similar to the one I have but NOT the same. Hello, my grandmother had one of these on her when she left from Poland after ww2. The coin she had, has a hole in the top of it like it was some type of medal during ww2. Did the British hand this out to Poles or were they treated as some type of medal during the war? Polish forces under British command?

 

It's a half penny.
George the fourth.
Currency.
People have always made tokens from coins.

 

No they used them during ww2 for something.. As I have stated it has a hole in the top of it from a sort of ribbon possibly

 

GEORGIVS V is
George V


just a bit of homemade jewellery I'd have said.
https://img0.etsystatic.com/047/0/6254773/il_570xN.695612100_g6ti.jpg

 

Quite so.



I was terribly drunk at the time...

 

This is a WW1 coin not a WW2 one. It might have been used as a token , or a talisman during WW2 , but the WW2 currency was this one (George VI)

 

It is difficult to follow what the question in this thread is supposed to be, but as a matter of basic explanation:

Three coins have been exhibited. They are all halfpenny coins in traditional British non-decimal currency, commonly called ha'pennies. Each represents:

One half of a penny (1d)
One 24th of a shilling (1s)
One 480th of a pound (£1)

In conversion to decimal currency, the value of each coin is 1.2 p

They are dated, in order of display, 1911, 1915 and 1939. All were valid currency from the moment of issue until c September 1972, when they were demonetised.

The display of the relevant monarch at the time of issue, George V in 1911 and 1915, George VI in 1939, had no bearing in itself on the value or validity of the coins.

It follows that the first coin was valid throughout WW1 and WW2, the second was valid in WW1 from 1915 and throughout WW2, and the third valid throughout WW2.

The boring of a hole in a British coin of the realm is actually an offence in British law, but no action is normally taken, especially in the case of low-value coins, unless there is a suspicion of some fraud or other criminal motive.

One purpose of boring a hole in such a coin has been to use it as a medallion in some way, perhaps on a ribbon around the neck, or to make a necklace out of a number of small coins, or to make a bracelet of coins.

I am not aware of any such usage having any official sanction, still less having a particular connection with Poland.

It is possible that a British person helping in the immediate post-WW2 rehabilitation of Poland gave the coin to a Polish woman as a souvenir or keepsake, and either before or after the presentation a hole was bored for one of the purposes described.

It is possible that such a presentation was made in a jocular way as a pretended "medal" for some service; it is possible that the recipient took it more seriously than was intended.

That is virtually all one can usefully say about the matter, unless and until any specific information comes to light about the particular coin in question.

 

I typed in georgivs medal in google image search and there sure are a lot of medals, they can't all be fake..

 

if you posted a photo of the one you have it would make it alot easier for us to tell you what it is.
without seeing it , it's blooming hard to help you.

the King's head appeared on stamps, coins & medals.

 

GEORGIVS is the stylised upper case version of Georgius, the Latin for George, and appeared on all British coins issued during the reigns of Georges V and VI (as it happens the 1911 coin exhibited by the OP represents the first coinage of George V following his accession in 1910).

GEORGIVS also appears on some British medals, and it is not surprising that a google search for it in relation to medals should produce a number of results..There is no suggestion that any of these are fakes.

It remains, however, unclear as to what the OP is apparently still asking.

 

What about metal supply shortages in Britain during the war that would make giving these out instead of the heavier and real kinds legit?

Dunno about Britain but in the US Metal was needed badly for the war. Many things were stopped being made so the factories could but the metal towards materials for the war.
http://www.sarahsundin.com/make-it-do-metal-shortages-during-world-war-ii/

 

why don't you just post a photo of what you have ?

 

are you ever going to get around to posting a photo of the one you have?

 

Metal shortage was never so bad as to resort to using minted coinage to reward soldiers. That would completely undermine the value of the reward, when anyone could just grab a halfpenny.

It's still fairly common to use coins as jewelry, punching holes to make necklaces, bracelets, cufflinks, etc.