What is this coin?

Found this coin in a junk box a few years ago still trying to figure out what it is:
https://www.facebook.com/7174911717...7491171748030/717495805080900/?type=3&theater

Any Ideas?

 

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Is it a jeton?

 

It certainly looks like one....



http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/PiN/juh.html

 

Well for the pice I paid $1. but was hoping for something more exciting than a Jeton.

 

Its what is called a "Rechenpfennig" in German, a counting jeton. Your piece probably dates to the 15. or 16. century.

 

So even though it was cheap, it's still pretty old. 15th or 16th century seems pretty exciting to me.

 

I've come across some wild stuff in junk boxes. found a Bohemia Denar from Wenceslaus II once.

 

Nothing wrong with jetons, there are some attractive ones, rare enough and quite cheap in regard to their rarity as people often overlook them


GASTON D'ORLEANS (1627-1650)
Jeton, argent - 1642 - Atelier de Trévoux
GASTON . DE . FRANCE (croix de l'Ordre de St Esprit) FRERE . VNIQVE . DV . ROY. Ecu d'Orléans couronné entouré des colliers des ordres du roi
. QVO TRIA QVARTVM .Lis avec trois fleurs et un bouton. A l'exergue . 1642 . ("Où il y en a trois, il y aura un quatrième")
4.51 gr,
Ref : Feuardent # 10853

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