Need Help To Identify The Below Coin Or Token

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Panayiotis New Member Cyprus 16 Posts	Posted 02/02/2015 07:58 am I need your help in identifying the below ... do not know whether is a coin or token also .. even if you don't know .. your advice as where I should look would be also appreciated. Was found in 2 pieces and the total weight is 49gr. Thank you in advance for your aid! Report this Post to the Staff

Medieval Pillar of the Community 3772 Posts	Posted 02/02/2015 08:05 am Seems to be a phantasy token. Report this Post to the Staff
Panayiotis New Member Cyprus 16 Posts	Posted 02/02/2015 08:35 am I personally do not think is a fantasy token (not ruling out though). In fb groups I have received comments that might be from roman games showing gladiators while on another site they mentioned that the numericals/lettering (with reservations) might be arabic (Arabic numerals 2867) Report this Post to the Staff
Tryna Pillar of the Community United States 937 Posts	Posted 02/02/2015 09:18 am I would be surprise to learn it was Roman. What is the metal? The crack in it looks to me to be post minting. Therefore I doubt if it is silver. It could be, but I daoubt it. The art on it is not saying Roman to me. In fact it seems rather cartoonish. Also it does not look like a hammered coin. I think it is a token of some sort made after milled coinage was in vogue. My bet would be a token used in the 1700 or 1800s to help tell a story of some sort. It would not surprise me to learn it was newer than that. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16827 Posts	Posted 02/02/2015 4:52 pm It's not Roman, and the "numerals" on it are not Arabic. They're not numerals, just more of the odd "alphabet". I can't tell if the "alphabet" is just garbled nonsense, or some kind of code like the Masonic cipher, but I'm pretty sure it's not a genuine native alphabet. It sure isn't ancient Cypriot Greek. At 49 grams, it's way, way too big to be an ancient or mediaeval silver coin; even a Greek dekadrachm is lighter than that. So it's a medal or fantasy of some sort. Judging by the porous surface in the few places where it's in focus, I'd say it's been cast. 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
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 02/02/2015 9:12 pm to the community This is not any coin type that I have ever seen before. The lettering looks Greek but written backwards. I would say it's some unknown type of token. Report this Post to the Staff
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