Token - Official Shove-Ha’penny Disc ND

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Shove Ha'penny is the smaller offspring of a game called Shovel Board
Earlier versions, which were played in Taverns at least as early as the fifteenth century, have been known as Shoffe-grote (when the coins used were Edward IV groats), Slype Groat and Slide-thrift and these were all played in a similar fashion to Shove Ha'penny but with different coins of the period during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
In the game, players take turns to push coins up a board with horizontal lines across it. The areas between each pair of horizontal lines are called a "beds" and the objective is to push the coins so that they land squarely in the beds without touching the horizontal lines. To win, a player needs to get a coin in each bed 3 times which is no easy task for the beds furthest away from the front of the board. If a player manages to score three coins in one bed in a single turn, he is said to have scored a "sergeant" and if all five coins should score in a single turn, it is a "sergeant major" or a "gold watch".
http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Shove-HaPenny.htm