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Countermarked Front & Back. Any Ideas?

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 Posted 09/24/2015  6:18 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add randomasu to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
This coin is bronze, 21.5mm and 7.1g. Heavy for it's size.
It is countermarked on both sides. 'RW' with an upside down looking cross on one side and 'W' with an ohm symbol(?) and some other lines.
I can't make out any original marks on the coin at all.
My research comes up with mostly ancients at this size and weight, but the markings are obviously not ancient.

Any ideas who the countermarks belong to or what coin this might be?



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 Posted 09/25/2015  08:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cascade to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hmm, maybe a remberance of a loved one?... You have RW, which could be Name initials on one side with a cross meaning he lived his life with God (or without being upside down) then on the other side you have his last initial inside an omega symbol (the last letter of the Greek alphabet symbolizing the end, or end of life)

I'm unsure about the Egyptian pictograph type river underneath the omega but they were all the rage in the late 19th century with the decription of the Rosetta stone and in the early 20th century with the finding of King tuts tomb.

This is all early morning supposition but it's what I think at first glance. I could be way off base though

Edit: hmm, or maybe the pictograph is a trail and legs and with the omega on top it it means the guy died traveling like on the trail out west or some other migration event?
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 Posted 09/28/2015  11:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tryna to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I think 'the cross' is an apolstery tack and a screw.
the mark on the back could be the maker's mark of R. W. the furniture builder.

But who knows?
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