Need Help Identifying Old Gold Coin?

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jdsstrat Valued Member United States 258 Posts	Posted 02/11/2025 1:35 pm Greetings again from NYC. I recently inherited my grandfather's stamp and coin collection. After a a number of VERY productive exchanges on the Stamp Forum, I wanted to give this forum a try. I have been wracking my brains trying to make heads or tails - pun intended - of this old gold coin... at least I think it's a coin. Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? Report this Post to the Staff

jbuck Moderator United States 187507 Posts	Posted 02/11/2025 2:10 pm to the Community! Your post was moved to the appropriate forum for the proper attention. Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
HondoB Bedrock of the Community United States 24878 Posts	Posted 02/11/2025 2:46 pm to the CCF, jdsstrat! Please tell us the weight and size of your item. Thanks! Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures Report this Post to the Staff
jdsstrat Valued Member United States 258 Posts	Posted 02/11/2025 3:17 pm Thank YOU! The diameter is 2.4cm; thickness less than .5mm. I don't have the tool to measure weight but can tell you it is extremely thin and light. Hope that helps. Let me know if you need anything else. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16806 Posts	Posted 02/11/2025 5:53 pm Hello and welcome. Sorry, but this is neither gold nor a coin. It's a brass jeton or rechenpfennig, a kind of token originally made for use on a counting-board, a mediaeval chequerboard that was used kind of like an abacus to help people do mathematics back when everybody still wrote numbers using Roman numerals. This is a rose and orb type of the style commonly made in Nuremberg, Germany, probably from the 1400s or 1500s judging by the style of lettering. See the top token on this page for a very similar example. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
jdsstrat Valued Member United States 258 Posts	Posted 02/11/2025 7:02 pm That's what I was afraid of. Thanks for the feedback, though. Report this Post to the Staff
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