Medieval Pseudo-Roman Jetton From Nurembourg - Augustus

hu...that's interesting, don't think I've seen anything like that before. the reverse certainly looks like a coin from the 1600's, so doesn't look like they were really trying to fool anyone....what was it for?

Don't forget, in the 1600s, there were no such things as Roman coin catalogues, or any other coin catalogues for that matter. Becker replicas from a hundred years later don't look particularly convincing to modern-day ancients collectors either, because we've all seen books and catalogues of ancient Roman coins so know what the "real thing" looks like. Most of Becker's customers did not have such knowledge. We also have much more general knowledge about ancient times - for example, we know the ancient Romans did not have shields and crowns that looked like that, but a minor aristocrat in the 1600s would not.