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Message:: [QUOTE="Chris B, post: 4281373, member: 87179"]Hello CT Sleuths. This unexpected downtime has given me the opportunity to take another look at some puzzling pieces in my collection. I have had this one for at least a couple of years. It is one of those things I purchased because it was kind of neat looking and I liked it. [ATTACH=full]1089302[/ATTACH] When I purchased my dealer friend said it had also stumped him but that he expected it was a lead trial strike for a proposed medal. In my searches, I have been unable to locate any actual medals struck. The only reference I have found is: <a href="https://books.google.com/books/content?id=8CYVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U35niJYxlzyMYCwvGRDAr6_-pywew&ci=96%2C777%2C749%2C502&edge=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books/content?id=8CYVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U35niJYxlzyMYCwvGRDAr6_-pywew&ci=96%2C777%2C749%2C502&edge=0" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books/content?id=8CYVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U35niJYxlzyMYCwvGRDAr6_-pywew&ci=96,777,749,502&edge=0</a> It is from a book called Landmarks of Orleans County, New York. It was published in 1894. I keep re-reading the passage from the link but it still doesn't make sense to me. So, it killed my assumption that this had something to do with New Orleans, although my head still wants to go there.[/QUOTE]