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New Member
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Just for fun I'll guess it's Italian and see what the pros say. I see Naples?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It looks like some type of token or jeton to me
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Thank u for your quick replies. I was hoping to get a little more specific info like where what who kind of stuff. My mom is convinced it is real gold and maybe worth something. She said she found it off of bird island near myrtle beach, SC.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I like your coin Not1Cent, I am surprised it didn't get more attention. Maybe there were a lot of posts at the time and it sank down in the recent posts column.
Can you tell us more about the size and weight?
If you don't have a specific weight is this heavy like gold for it's size?
Also, it looks perfectly OK in it's present condition. PLEASE do NOT clean it up!
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New Member
United States
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The coin is the size of a quarter and weighs less than the quarter. I was wrong about Bird Island. My mom said she found it near Sandy Knoll Plantation, near Sandy Island, which is somewhere near Myrtle Beach, SC. Something like Georgetown county I think. Hope this helps. I sure would like to know as much as possible about this coin. Looks interesting. She wants to sell it but doesn't have any idea how much its worth.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm guessing it's a button....
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I doubt that it is gold, maybe copper bronze or brass. If it is abut the size of a quarter and lighter, it would be considerably heavier I would think than a quarter.
I'm still as baffled as you. I did look around a little but found nothing.
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Valued Member
United States
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I support the button theory. It will explain the blob in the middle of the one side and the apparent raised area in the middle of the other.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I think you have the bottom picture upside down and the design in the middle looks like a R when turned around. it looks like to me its some type of advertisement for some kind of pie maybe? I am just guessing here  |
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Since everyone is offering guesses ... I've been trying to read the letters to see if they actually make up words, and all I can come up with are "PIF", "NAPOLI" (but with a backwards "N"), and possibly "MADINA". Only "Napoli", Italian for "Naples", makes any sense. Perhaps we have a jeton here with fake Latin words on it?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Maybe Pizza Pie? Completely off the wall guess.
When I was a kid we went to a small Italian restaurant called "The Napoli" which translates to Naples in Italy. They had awesome Pizza!
But this looks so old, it looks like something from at least the 1800's.
Like I said just a wild guess.
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Even if they r guesses, at least you all r given it a try and I appreciate it. I just wish there was a picture of what it really looks like some where. It would b funny if it got someone a free slice of pizza back in the day. Ha ha.
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Pillar of the Community
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 I don't believe the button theory. Buttons don't have a design on both sides. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I believe what you are seeing as "NAPOLI" is actually a "MAPOLI" and the M has taken a hit instead of it being a backwards N
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I agree, I took the image and tweaked it a bit, but haven't had a chance to put them up. I do see Mapoli as well, so there goes the pizza token idea. LOL   |
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