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Unidentified Bargain Find #3 - Medieval Ae? With Trilobe?

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Some weird guy at a weekend flea market had a bag of lower-grade ancient coins that he was selling for slightly under a dollar each.

Most of the bag was Pantikapaion AEs, which I could hardly care less about, but I did find a few coins that I did want to buy...

...actually, this particular one was from a different (even cheaper) bargain bin. Still the same guy though.
I want to think that it's an interesting 15th or 16th century coin, but chances are that it's just a Nuremberg jeton. Would still be somewhat interesting, though

Unidentified-Bargain-Find-#3---Medieval-Ae?-With-Trilobe?
Unidentified-Bargain-Find-#3---Medieval-Ae?-With-Trilobe?

As you might have noticed, this coin is bent and holed. This leads to difficulties in both measurement and photography.

As far as I could determine, it weighs 1.75 grams, and is 24 mm across on the undamaged diameter.
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Perhaps a mid-1700s Nuremburg jeton?
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Perhaps a mid-1700s Nuremburg jeton?
That's what I thought it was, but it has medieval-style Gothic lettering. Did they make Nuremberg jetons with Gothic lettering?
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In better condition something like this perhaps?

https://gilliscoins.com/coinage/jetons/wj8286.htm
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@j1c, I don't know a ton about these, but on this website: http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/pages/nuremberg-jetons.html
The second example appears to have the inscriptions in Gothic script.
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