Found this mysterious medallion in a place that I have found hessian buttons. Help!

[TheSkyHive]

Greetings to you all. This is my first time posting.I have been detecting for about a year and I live in SW Virginia near Roanoke,Va and Smith Mountain Lake,VA. My last trip to a house owned by a Amish family I was able to recover a perfect revolutionary war hessian soldier eagle button. I was able to find out what it was within minutes online.Cut to a week ago.Back at the same site and I uncover a beautiful gold colored medallion. Round in shape with a shield within the circle. Within the shield is a gladiator or spartan on a chariot facing right with a outstretched hand. The chariot is being pulled by at least two horses. My detectors VDI was in a the perfect gold range and it weighs just over 2 grams. The back of the medal has 8 mysterious bumps or stars in a lopsided v shape. any ideas. This has been fun to research but its keeping me up nights now.

 

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[Mud Hut]

It may be a 1914 Second Russian Olympiad in Riga medal, depicting a Lion pulling chariot.

 

[DCMatt]

Research 'Apollo Charioteer"

 

[Mud Hut]

Is that a horse or a lion?

 

[Oddjob]

Is that a horse or a lion?

It is 2 horses actually, you can see the outline from the shoulders up and on the rear legs.

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[nhbenz]

Welcome to TreasureNet!
I would suspect this is from about the same timeframe as the "Hessian eagle" button if that is one of these: http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/425692-hessian-button-modern-replica.html