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Byzantium Or Italian States Help ID

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 Posted 04/11/2016  03:26 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add ibelgica to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello,

Here is a very small coin with a long cross on the obverse, with small cross in each angle (legend around?), on the reverse a three line inscription ?KNON / VICIT / NXCIX ?

Diameter 17mm, and a weight of 4.07g

Thank you for your help,
Pierre

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It's not Byzantine, I have not seen anything like this before. I'm not sure what it is. It might be medieval and than again it might be a fantasy piece. I'll move it over to the Ancient/Medieval coin section maybe someone there can ID it.
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@pierre, welcome to CCF. I'm thinking that I agree with echizento that it isn't Byzantine and also with meepzorp over in the FORVM discussion board that it isn't Italian either. I don't remember seeing a cross pattee with crosses in all four quarters and a fifth small cross in the center of the big one.

Here are some thoughts:

1. Where did this "coin" come from--do you have any provenance?
2. It looks gold in color, but does it attract a magnet?
3. I agree that the obv also has at least a partial legend. I think that I can make out the letter E at 5 o'clock and the letter S at about 10 o'clock. If you cropped your pictures more closely to the rim, they could be blown up a little better and then those details might be more evident.
4. I disagree with your description of the rev legend. In my reading, I believe that the first line contains five characters. However, I can't really tell what the first and second letters are with these pics. I do note that the middle word VICIT means he/she/it won or he/she/it conquered so that might indicate a gaming token of some sort, but I'm not sure in the absence of these other details.
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