I Found This Coin I Dont Know What It Is

what diameter; and what weight, please ?
I can't read anything on it, can you make out some letters in the top pic ?

the cross in the second pic reminds me of some Spanish or Portuguese coins that I dimly recall seeing ...

and, Welcome to CCF !

Peter in Oz

more than 100 people looked at this and I got one bit of advice all you coin experts and you cant do better than that

Now, there's no need to be rude. Have patience, grasshopper. We're all volunteers here. I didn't post an answer the first three times I clicked on this thread because I didn't have much else to add to what Peter said.

I can clearly see a crown in the top pic, but I can't make out what's beneath it. It could be a shield, such as is found on the coins of dozens of European nations, like Portugal, France, Spain and many others; It could even be a crudely rendered portrait such as can be found on mediaeval English hammered pennies.

The cross-shape on the bottom pic is also relatively common on many older European coins; the things placed in the quarters between the cross arms can often help narrow down the identity. Unfortunately, it's just not clean enough to make anything out there.

Inscriptions are also helpful in identifying coins; here again, I can see where text might be, but I can't actually read anything.

If you were posting that you'd found it in a field in rural England, my assumption would be that it's a hammered penny, similar to the ones posted in the last link above. Especially given that it appears to be rather thin and to have been bent in half and back again perhaps more than once, a fate common to mediaeval hammered. But those coins were well and truly out of fashion by the time the Carolinas were colonized. They're also smaller than 24mm across.

The metal appears to be brass, unless it appears to be more silvery in hand that it looks in the photos. Brass wasn't used in mediaeval times for coins, and when brass/bronze began to be used for coinage they were usually quite thick, like the Portuguese example above.

My best guess as to identity, given that it seems to be thin, brass and old, is that it's not a coin at all, but a jeton, like the ones discussed here.

Before you do accidental damage, let me mention DON'T CLEAN IT! As mentioned, many coins have a cross, usually with religious meaning (the ruler often considered blessed by god), and it also made it easy to divide into quarters.

Having mentioned cleaning, what you CAN do is let it soak, for weeks or even months, in olive oil to loosen up stuff sticking to it. You can first wash it in hot water with some dishwashing soap, but don't rub or scrub it with a toothbrush, eraser, or anything else that will polish or scratch it.

OK it is soaking I will re post in a month or so and I will find a better camera and do you think it has any value 25$-200?

Looks like gold

Romanian ban, just a stab in the dark.