It looks like a clipped or otherwise misshapen bronze coin. Eagle obverses are so common and the condition so poor that you are going to have difficulty pinning down an attribution.
Tif, Thank you . The hypothesis that it is fine to plummet coin weights in the form of ancient coins cropped such fashion was of 3-4 centuries BC type, http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=130663
Just like modern tokens, tessara could be anything. In some cases we know what they had to be but in some we guess as best we can. Tickets, magic, board games, receipts......
Hi Sallent. I was told that it is stylized to plummet weights. Stylized motifs of "old coins". Weights in the style of an old coin. 3-4 ate 5 centuries of our era it was fashionable.
=> I totally agree (hey, the dude may be young, but he's absolute money!!) Ummm, I thought all tessera were all made of lead, but maybe I was incorrect? (yah, Bing has often tried to tell me what it's like to be wrong)
Tesserae can be found made of just about anything and I have seen cropper, bronze, brass, lead, clay and glass.
This is just a cut down coin. Very few dealers know anything about tesserae and generally just lump together "anything that isn't obviously a coin" under the term.
