🔎 UNIDENTIFIED French Silver Coin

[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

I was at a museum yesterday which had an early 1800s french percussion rifle with this silver coin embedded on the stock. Any idea what this is?

 

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[pepperj]

I was at a museum yesterday which had an early 1800s french percussion rifle with this silver coin embedded on the stock. Any idea what this is?
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Is it a coin, or just a silver decoration.

 

[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

Is it a coin, or just a silver decoration.

Honestly? I don't know. But it is the right size, so I lean coin.

 

[grasshopper]

I would guess just silver decoration piece

 

[Bucket Lister]

I would guess just silver decoration piece

+1. There's nothing on it to suggest a coin--no "portrait", no denomination (no writing of any kind), no date, nothing to indicate issuing entity... Not that any/all of those are required, but a coin will usually have one or more.

 

[unclemac]

not a coin but perhaps a jeton.

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[Almy]

Looks like a silver decorative inlay to me. I would have enjoyed seeing the rifle at the museum too.

 

[Joecoins]

A silver bachelors button , inlaid later in its life, ? 4 button holes on it?

 

[Joecoins]

Maybe it was a coin ..then carved

 

[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

Maybe it was a coin ..then carved

This was really my first thought. Possibly a date in the center with more information on the hidden side. Then the date was rubbed off to make a decoration.