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Unknown Italian Or Malta Coin?

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Hi All,
In my collection I have a coin I can't identify yet. Perhaps someone here has seen it before? It happens to look like a Italian or Malta mint. This is what I think due to the cross and open dots arround. It could be swiss aswell but that migth be far fetched...

Does anyone have any idea about this one?
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Reverse might have PHILI... but I cannot make out the design (possibly double struck?).

I think this type of cross might be used on Crusader states of the MIddle East, maybe some other places? Maybe we can see S I ? ? N. I checked denaros of Siena (Italy) but did not find a match (cross is not quite the same, and never anything in the angles)
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The reverse looks like a garden from PHILIPS II. But the coin must be 150 years older then 1550's. We have them in the netherlands on dutch duiten from Holland and Zeeland but they are a few hundred years later.
Als none excist with a cross and a cross like this we don't have on dutch coins.

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Navarre has some things that might be close:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces228778.html

On the date (or era), the font looks fairly modern. I would expect gothic lettering if the coin were from early 1400s . I would guess 1500 or later.

Edit: Maybe in your second photo, if it is rotated about 30 degrees clockwise, we see a large N in center, with a pellet to the side, so this could be a match?
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I think you are right. It looks very similair indeed. Nice find!


Felipe II (1556-1598). Cornado. Pamplona ?
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