How are you at reading script engravings? I recently picked up this 1943 walking lib that seems to have been someone's wartime memento. Problem is, it was clearly a pocket piece or something & is hard to decipher. Does anything jump out to you?
Very interesting- I've never seen anything like that before as well. Also, seems that the intricate cursive would be hard to engrave into a coin. In the middle, I'm not sure if that word is "Command" or "Commemorate", and it looks like there's a date at the bottom too- "19--". Too difficult to make out, though. On the front, someone wrote their name (Charles), and WEC was the designation of an Allied military convoy moving from the Isle of Wight to France around December 1944/May 1945. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Allied_convoys_during_World_War_II_by_region
I was thinking the WEC was an artist's initials, but the convoy desgnation makes sense too! Instead of "commemorate" might that be "commodore "? And the date appears to be 4.13.1942 (oddly on a 1943 coin).
Could also be a badly carved "3"- that would make more sense for the coin's date. 04-13-1942? 04-13-1943? I guess we'll never know for sure.
Or, maybe "commissioned"? On a related note, the SS El Occidente was sunk on 4.13.1942. Maybe a survivor commemorated the date for some reason? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_El_Occidente