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Coin or Token ID

Gramps3Gramps3 Posts: 25
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Can anyone identify this old coin or token. Got it at an estate sale auction in a bag lot of very old mostly German/Italian States coins and tokens. It looks silver, about the size of a U.S. Dime. Obverse looks like letter "T" to left of head. Reverse seems to be an immage of a book.

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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,740 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You have some neat items image Alas, I'm unable to help you with identification yet again...

    8 Reales Madness Collection
  • coachleonardcoachleonard Posts: 995 ✭
    I'd say you have a very cool-looking italian silver coin, probably 1400's, but the legend area has been clipped. Could have been struck by an Italian City State like Milan or Florence or Naples....somebody here can probably come up with a specific ID.
  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Quite right, coach. The centre's been punched out of one of these coins of Naples, Frederick III, circa 1500 AD. It's been "clipped" so much, and so neatly, that I think it would now qualify as a religious amulet, rather than a mutilated coin.

    I wonder what the burning book is supposed to represent. image
    Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
    Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"

    Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD. B)
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