Totally stumped. Need help with coin ID - winner will get a SILVER prize!!!

Joe777Cool

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Got this as part of a lot of coins I purchased. Size is a little bigger than a US half dollar, weight is 10.7 grams. Coin does not appear to be silver (sound/sight).

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Gonna need year/denomination to win!
 

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no, i do not know with any certainty if it is a coin or not - but it was mixed in with 1000 other coins....
 

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I cant tell from the photo, on the side without the eagle ( im assuming the reverse) does that edge lettering appear to take up the entire edge or could there be a wreath in there under that wear?
 

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What were you told, if anything, about the item when you purchased the lot?

nothing. i have found coins in the lot from south america, asia, euope mostly.
 

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I cant tell from the photo, on the side without the eagle ( im assuming the reverse) does that edge lettering appear to take up the entire edge or could there be a wreath in there under that wear?

lettering takes up most of the edge it appears, i dont think i see a wreath
 

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ive checked everything I got on Russian coins and that eagle doesn't match any of them at all, the wings and neck curvature is all wrong, if more of that lettering was there I could at least tell weather or not it is cyrillic
 

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not Russian or Austrian, im stumped, for now, can anyone get anything out of that lettering
 

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Thinking outside the box--and under the influence of a glass of Merlot.....it may be two winged creatures holding hands, facing one another, each wearing a backwards bending crest in the form of an eagles' head or perhaps a serpents' heads.
Don........
 

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that one novel approach don but it does give me an idea, ill be back!
 

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well its not Albanian, time to bite the bullet and start checking the german states, this could take a while......
 

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you know what your right, the legs brought it all into frame for me, now I have absolutely no idea where to start!
 

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Almost looks like this. On your coin I think I see the date 1222 image-632464148.jpg
 

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The 1234 Roskilde Denier (pfennig, penning, etc) holds the title of earliest coin with an Anno Domini date.
So, unless the OP's 'coin' is a record breaker, the 1222 date, if seen, cannot be the date of the 'coin'--if it is a coin.
Don....
 

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I thought I saw 1222 as well for what its worth
 

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