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Message:: [QUOTE="stevent, post: 196659, member: 7916"]I'm in possession of a small foreign coin about the same diameter as a US nickel It is bronze in color and very thin, much thinner than any other coin I've ever encountered. It's very light and might be aluminum but it does have a bit of that "ring" that silver coins have when they hit a hard surface. It's germanic and undated. One side has a profile of some guy wearing a hair style and jacket style that could be from anywhere between 1700 and 1820. The other side is a woman, possibly Diana (the Huntress), holding a bow in her left hand and a thin dog (whippet? greyhound?) on a leash in her right hand, facing a stand of trees. There is no date on the coin. It's rather poorly-struck. The strike is offset to the right of the blank, on the reverse; and to the left of the obverse. There is writing. As best I can make it out on the obverse, it reads, clockwise: LVD; then an X in smaller type; then VI then DG; then FRET or ERET; then NAVR or HAVR On the reverse it reads, clockwise: R ECH PFENN across the top right quadrant and LAUER at the bottom of the coin. There is not even a hint of an I between the R and the E in R ECH (yes, I know how to spell reich but the gap between the letters is between the R and the E); I don't think it's a Reich penny from Germany but could be wrong. Besides, the only reason I think it's germanic is the PFENN is probably pfennig.  But none of the Reich pfennig images online match what I have. The LVD, X, and VI, above, could be Roman numerals for dates but if so, they don't make any sense. I've checked out all the Lauer "jeton" coin images online and this doesn't match any of them. Anyone have any ideas?[/QUOTE]

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