Found Coin Or Token.need ID Please

iThank you! t is about 1 inch in diameter and weighs about 5.6 grams

I as well can offer no help in identifying it but someone will come along that can shed light onto its story.

Edit: I thought that since the obverse (?) was stamped so clearly and well that the Coinoscope app would have come up with something but nothing even close unfortunately.

Where are the digits? I don't see any.

It looks to me like a decorative piece, possibly something to put into a hole left when drilling wood to cover the end of the bolt. But it also looks like something might have been attached or there was a hook -- look around 1:00 in the second picture.

It doesn't look like a coin. The monogram is too heavy and it seems to be a one-sided stamping (but not like any uniface coins I've seen).

They're hiding in plain sight, intertwined with each other in the top pic:



The "9" is red, the "8" is blue, and the "2" is green.

I would also agree that there's supposed to be a central "1", which marked in orange. And given the context, I would also agree it to be a chronogram for "1892". Rather than "1982"; the piece isn't "modern" enough for 1982, but making crazy monograms and chronograms like that was all the rage back in the late 1800s.

As for what it actually, is, my first guess is some kind of button; the elaborate edge looks way too fancy for a token.

wow!! you guys are amazing!

It's just interlocked letters, in the style that was very common from the late 1800s to the 1920s, when Art Deco replaced Art Nouveau styles and ornate monograms went out of fashion.

Exactly which letters still puzzles me. Best guess, is two interlocked letter "H"s.

Ahhh, I see the two "H" interlocks now.

Let me toss out another (remote) possibility. The central figure is a diamond. What if the interlocking letters "H.H" are first and middle initials, and the central diamond is shorthand for a last name? I'm still pondering the anchor-like and the woodgrain appearance of the designs.

Here's the thought. There was an "H.H. Diamond" who was a Union soldier in the Tennessee Cavalry, and was a survivor of the S.S. Sultana disaster. The survivors attended annual reunions in Tennessee.

Again, just a wild thought, but the initials would be right and the design has some elements that suggest a ship, and there is a Tennessee connection.

Too far fetched? Or at least an outside chance?

That's enough speculation while grazing on lunch.

Thanks for indulging the speculation.

EDIT: H.H. Diamond apparently was in the 3rd Tennessee,. Most of that regiment's members lived in Knox and Blount Counties, very close to the Tennessee River. Hmmmmm.