Ancient Coin Found

[Bumpstick]

I was going through my finds for this year and this Ancient coin puzzles me.
I was in a local fresh water lake when I found this one.

Here is a picture of this old coin I found in the lake this season. Most coins come out of the lake all black and grungy or the copper is corroded away and old pennies are paper thin. What you see on this coin is how it came out of the water. I was like Woo-Hoo a gold coin. After looking at it closer I am thinking Bronze maybe.
It rings like quality metal when you drop it on the table not like today’s junk coins.
It looks primitive made but not cast. It is the same on both sides. Other side a little better. Larger than a Quarter about the size of the Susan B dollar.
There are some stories of Ancient peoples living in Wisconsin and upper Michigan. Then there was the Copper culture people that mined and used copper tools here. Not much on coinage that I know of. I have heard of blank coins found at some old digs.
If any one would know any history of this coin I would appreciate it.

 

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[Mackaydon]

Personally,I doubt it's a coin; more likely a token.
Don.......

 

[NHBandit]

looks worn on the high spots revealing a different kind of base metal. Is it plated ? I agree with Don. dosn't look like any coin I've ever seen. Is the reverse the same ? You're showing 2 pictures of the same side.

 

[Mackaydon]

Native Americans did not have coins before the Europeans arrived; instead, they bartered.
Don.....

 

[GatorBoy]

Looks like a lumber token or some sort of mixed alloy token

 

[GatorBoy]

www.tokencatalog.com

 

[Bumpstick]

Personally,I doubt it's a coin; more likely a token.
Don.......

I saw this answer coming and I should of mentioned I searched Google for this coin.
I searched through so may tokens I can't see straight. That was my first inclination.
I searched foreign coins and E-Bay coins with no luck.
The discoloration in this coin is staining in the metal. this is what it looks like right out of the drink.
I should probably move my inquiry over to the What is this forum.
I thought I would share with you for feedback since it was a water find.

 

[bootybandit]

I agree with the token theory. The detail looks to simple to be a coin.

 

[GatorBoy]

If it being a token disappoints you I have a feeling you're not going to be real happy wherever you put it

 

[Bumpstick]

Native Americans did not have coins before the Europeans arrived; instead, they bartered.
Don.....

I believe you to be misinformed about not having coins.

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They call them Nuab-zo-win Disks
And look like prehistoric coins to me.

 

[GatorBoy]

You've just got a token there good for 5 cents

 

[GatorBoy]

I just dug one recently.. Its called a trade token

 

[Mackaydon]

Coins are coins and disks are disks--or some may call disks tokens.
But these disks are not coins; at best they are tokens used for barter.
Here's a site that describes the first series of coins that you might find interesting (including their age):
World's Oldest Coin - First Coins
Don....

 

[jtw1313]

Solo is a Italian word that translates to only Maybe that could help you out to Id it

 

[GatorBoy]

Solo is also a Cigar Company

 

[GatorBoy]

Solo was also the name of a saloon opened by Frank Bliss in



Montana in the early 19 hundreds

 

[keith2004]

need a view of the edge and BOTH sides of the item.

 

[Jolly Mon]

The number is clearly Indo-Arabic which corresponds to our modern number system. This pretty much rules out the possibility of it being of Pre-Columbian Native American origin...even if you posit there were coins minted in Pre-Columbian America (highly doubtful).

If you believe the coin is of Old World origin, your next step is simply to go through the catalogs of ancient coins and see if you can find a match. The number on the coin means you can probably safely skip any coins older than around 500 CE.

 

[jtw1313]

My guess is it is a trade token for cigars as they did for cigarettes to. maybe 5 cigars or one that's worth 5 cents something along those lines

 

[imafishingnutt]

I don't think that's a 5 but might be also im leaning to it saying SOL and then a mark which is smaller search SOL or 5 SOL coin or token