I'm going through my dad's limited coin collection and came across the attached. I'm hesitant to call it a coin but doing a Google image search produced nothing but ancient coins so that got me even more intrigued as to what I've got here. Any/All insight, opinions, feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Even ancient coins generally have some legends on them. The lack of legends and it being uniface point to a decoration rather than a coin, but I'm sure someone will show up and know something about it. Be patient.
robertk310, Looks like a slightly worn Christian religious token or something intended to be a pendant without the circular piece used to pass a chain or cord through. It would be odd for a coin to have a defined side with an image followed by a completely smooth opposite side. This last observation seems hard to explain but the image looks like an angel unlike robed or winged figures seen on ancients. Hope you find out what it is.
A Roman Victory and a Christian Angel look alike to me. I think your piece shows an angel holding (reading) a book.
I also think it's a figure of an angel and the smooth back side makes me think it's not a coin too but, like I said, I'm stumped so thought I'd take advantage of the collective brain trust on here. ☺ Standing by for more feedback!
Update: I forgot to weigh the piece! Here's some added info that might give someone here the right info to say what it is??? Weighs 8.4 grams and when I run the edge across a piece of paper, it leaves what looks like a graphite line-is this confirmation of material? Lead?
This looks vaguely familiar to the tokens my kids used to get at vacation bible school when they were growing up. Stamped from a pot-metal / pewter.
Its a 21st century Christian religious token/amulet. I've seen tons of these. One of my saved ebay searches is the word "tokens" under the ancient category and my god, you won't believe the schlock you see on there.
Thanks to everyone for their replies/insight! From reading everyone's comments, I think I can safely classify this as a token not worth anything at all, numistically speaking.
