Religious pendant/coin? too pretty to be byzantine, but what the heck is it?

Recieved this as an add on from one of my favorite eBay sellers recently, but know not what it is or where it comes from in time, other than that it was recently unearthed around the Burgundy region of France.
It weighs .92 gr and is 23 mm including the loop, that I am not sure if was added on later.
It appears to be a radiate pope or a queen in a long dress and the reverse a temple with a little Jesus on a cross in a burst of light:


Has anyone ever seen anything like it or could point me in the right direction on the identification?

 

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religious pendent of some kind

 

The obverse reminds me of the Infant of Prague, a popular image of the Christ Child popular in Eastern Europe. The reverse appears to be an image of the Blessed Sacrament in a monstrance and displayed on an altar and used for blessing the congregants in a service called a Benediction. I've never seen a coin like this and feel that is a religious amulet. From its appearance I would say Reformation times when the Catholic Church position on the real presence in the eucharist was a source of contention among Christians of that period.

 

Agree with Kevin, the Infant of Prague is a good guess. Alternatively, it could be Christ the King, which image fits the crown a bit better.
The Infant of Prague is almost always portrayed with a crown more like this
The original Infant of Prague (copy above) is a statue of Spanish origin, which ended up in Prague courtesy of a Hapsburg marriage. It is said it was a gift from St. Teresa of Avila. Pope Leo XII authorized the crown, a canonical crown, in the early 1800’s. What crown if any the image bore before then, I cannot say. Devotion to the Infant of Prague was widespread during the Counter Reformation until the present. The style of the OP’s medal could be produced anytime from the 1600’s to the 1800’s in my estimation.

 

The Infant of Prague was my first thought when I saw the medal. Most Catholic churches had one in it somewhere. Our home also had a statue as well with cloth verstments. As a formar monk, our monestary chapel had one in it as well with a large red votive candle included.

 

An aside, it is not of Byzantine/Orthodox style but Latin.

 

Capuchin?

 

Looks like an early modern Catholic pendant. These were often souvenirs from local places of pilgrimage. Stylistically, it looks 17th/18th century to me, but it could be a bit older or younger.

The obverse shows Mary as queen of heaven flanked by two incense burners. The crown, long hair, pallium, and the radiate halo (a reference to Revelations 12:1) are iconographic giveaways.

The reverse shows a sunburst monstrance on an altar, flanked by two incense burners, with the host contained by it turned into the crucified Christ. This type of image, which is iconographically related to the Mass of Saint Gregory, is quite common in late medieval and early modern devotional art.