Ancient style w/ Greek? legends - Identification Help

Any ideas on this?

About 26mm & 4.5g.

Thanks for any assistance

 

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Certainly not ancient.

 

I agree. Weird wear pattern as well. The devices are not affected by corrosion, but the fields are? To me, it looks like it was artifically aged.

 

Yep I'd agree that it's not ancient, I'm not sure if it looks artificially aged or not though. I think that's a snake charmer on that one side, maybe you can try get some info on the coin by researching that.

 

The seated figure of Aesculapius combined with the reverse cadeuceus suggests the item is a 20th century medallion of some medical group. The error associating the staff of Hermes with the medical profession, as I recall, was not all that long ago (post Civil War?) so the item should be during the period of that confusion. I do understand that there are still some medical groups continuing the error but I would suspect the medal is mid to late 1900's.

 

Thanks all very much for taking a look and posting. I will do some more research using these leads and see if I get anywhere.

 

strange...looks like it was "brick cleaned"?

no idea what it is...i would guess token?

 

The first word at the obverse left is Kappa. Considering the Kappa Omega on the reverse, I suspect the next word is Omega but I can't read it. There is enough room for another dozen letters around the edge. Who knows a medical related fraternity/sorority using those letters?

 

I know what you are talking about using the wrong staff Doug, but I think its older than that. At least that is what someone in our ancient coin club said last year in a presentation. I believe he said the confusion started in the 18th century using the double instead of single snake staff, (sorry I forget their respective names).

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medicine
The above references many opinions on the subject but the bottom line is that this is one we can blame on the US military.

 

Thanks for the link. Maybe I misheard or the presenter was mistaken. I do think it was in the US he was referring.