PLease can anyone give me some information on identifying this coin, photos attached. It looks medieval and has 4 fleur de lis on one side so I thought it might be french. The other side depicts a figure sitting under a gothic arch holding a staff or sceptre. Any help is gratefully received!!
THanks for changing the file type. I have traipsed for hours on the internet to no avail. The only thing I can find that is similar is below and once again it is French.
Oh it's French alright. I suspect it was a counterfeit chaise d'or from the 1300's, probably Philip VI. I say counterfeit because it is obviously not gold and all coins of that design type were gold. I cannot pin it down to particular coin but it is very close several of Philip's designs. Call it 1328 to 1350.
Thanks for your thoughts. I did wonder why it wasn´t gold as all the similar examples I had seen were so your point that it is would´ve been a counterfeit would fit.
I highly doubt that. A counterfeit would be very valuable. It looks to me like one of the common French jetons. The "King Under Canopy" type of the 14th Century. Here's an example: http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=1853&cat=84
Why ? They are not uncommon. Perhaps, but if you are familiar with French coinage of the period then you know there are plenty of coins with the same type design. Here's an example. And that it was commonplace to make counterfeits of base metal and either plate them with or give them a gold wash. And not all counterfeits are contemporary by any means.
