✅ SOLVED Button? Token? Tag? I'd Love Some Help With An ID.

[Silvermonkey]

Greetings T-Net Nation!

I found this item in a section of woods that has produced a number of colonial era artifacts. It weighs 1.4 g. and is 22 mm in diameter. It's also quite thin. When it popped out of the ground, I thought it was a button, but there is no sign of a shank. As you can see from the pictures, one side has an image of a crown over the letter "C". The other side is blank. I included an IHP in the picture for size comparison. Could it be a token or a tag of some kind? Does the crown/"C" emblem look familiar to anyone. I spent some time doing a Google search, but couldn't seem to find anything similar. If you have any thoughts, please let me know. Thanks!

 

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[Gene Mean]

Nice one! Crown over C that simple makes it seem old. I think button. It looks like one
loop point is visible.

 

[Red-Coat]

I don't know what it is, but it appears to be an Imperial crown (Prussian Empire or related).

There were no Prussian monarchs using the letter 'C' and I can't think of any other European countries using it, so it must stand for something other than a monarch's name I think.

 

[Mackaydon]

A possibility:
"..'crowned C', are apparently pseudomarks used by Ludwig Neresheimer & Co, of Hanau, Germany." Source: https://www.ascasonline.org/windowN19.html
Ludwig Neresheimer & Co. was a silversmithing company in Hanau, Germany that was founded in 1890 by August and Ludwig Neresheimer.
Hanau silversmiths often used pseudo-hallmarks, which are not officially registered, to imitate antique hallmarks
Don in SoCal.

 

[DCMatt]

French West Indies 2 sols.

Issuer	French West Indies (Overseas France)
King	Louis XVI (1774-1792)
Period	First Republic (1792-1804)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	1779-1797
Value	2 Sols (0.1)
Currency	Livre tournois (781-1795)
Composition	Billon (.208 silver)
Weight	2 g
Diameter	23 mm

 

[Silvermonkey]

Wow! DCMatt...you, my friend, are amazing! That is 100% what I found. In a million years I would not have guessed it was a coin. Thank you so much for the positive ID. Also thanks to Gene Mean, Red-Coat and Mackaydon for your efforts.