Coin, gameboard token or just a decorative artifact?

jmm2562

(I found another one in my collection of loose foreign coins...)

Does this artifact look familiar? An image search did not turn up a match, so I'm turning to the artifact experts. About the size of a US quarter but thinner. The reverse is a reflection of the obverse. Looks like copper, but chings like silver. I was not able to decipher the greek letters, which may surely provide a clue.

Thanks for any guidance you can provide, including pointers to where I should look...

TomB

It's not a coin.

SimonW

Looks like it may have been cut from a larger item, the bottom has a leftover tab. Probably wasn’t intended to be a coin or token at all, maybe the top of a collectible spoon? Or something similar

SimonW

Something like this:

Sapyx

@jmm2562 said:
I was not able to decipher the greek letters, which may surely provide a clue.

Unfortunately, that's probably because the Greek letters are indecipherable.

My transliteral reading of the quasi-Greek lettering would be, starting from the top, "F X AWSWETh ChII EWDMS X". Which makes just as little sense in Greek as it does in English.

Stylistically, the portrait looks more "Greek" than "Roman", but the way the legend curves around the portrait like that definitely looks more Roman. So I can't even say what type of coin it is attempting to imitate.

291fifth

Another poor quality decorative piece that may have been attached to a piece of furniture at some point. Not a coin.