I'm struggling to identify this and wonder if anyone can help. It has a rather legible "179"x date, and clear "sol" denomination, but the head of the monarch is facing to the right at a time that all the royal issue coinage was facing to the left. I'm very confused and can only think it must be a token or regional issue of some kind unknown to me. Quality is poor due to being a metal detectorist find. But, it's an intriguing mystery dating to around the time of the French Revolution. Reverse seems to show a standing figure holding a flag. Edge lettering is giving me a hard time deciphering. Diameter is about the same as a US quarter.
The obverse looks a bit like a Louis XV sol. But that wouldn't match the 1790s. Is the reverse a figure on horseback? I know the UK had a tremendous number of copper counterfeits and tokens in the late 1700s, often underweight, but I don't know about France. Canada made 1 sou copper tokens in Quebec too, but around the 1830s.
I was looking in the wrong country, apparently. This appears to be a 5 soldi, dated 1795 from Sardinia. Does this look like the right attribution? https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide...ldi-km-91-1794-1796-cuid-1152241-duid-1490091
