Need help identifying

[Aceinthehole]

Found this today and have no idea what it is. It is approximately the same size as a US nickel. Please help!

 

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[A2coins]

Looks like a token judging from the design that looks like an A someone will Id it Cool find

 

[A2coins]

Welcome also from MI Tommy

 

[Hawks88]

Nice find. Congrats

 

[Hawks88]

Welcome to tnet from Niagara Falls. I’m sure someone will ID it soon.

 

[Aceinthehole]

Welcome to tnet from Niagara Falls. I’m sure someone will ID it soon.

Thanks! I hope someone out there can. This site and forums are awesome!

 

[vpnavy]

..: Moved from TODAY'S FINDS! over to WHAT IS IT? for more exposure :..​

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Continual stomach distress is keeping me from sleeping... so I'm trying to distract myself by reading the What-Is-It? forum. To me, the letters on your find are a V and an R, superimposed as a sort of logo, as is often seen on 19th-Century buttons, and some tokens. Those two letters on your find are written in a very distinctive style that was popular from the 1870s into the early 1900s. Here's a photo (below), showing similar-style letters P and E, superimposed, as part of the Ponds Extract Company logo on a cold-cream bottle's screw-on lid. It is from the 1920s.

Examples of superimposed/intertwined-letters-logos are a business-name, a military Militia unit's name, school-names, veterans' organizations, and many other categories.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I don't recognize this coin, but it strikes me as being European in origin, possibly Middle Eastern.
You didn't mention if you found this detecting. What was the setting you found it in... a park, a homesite or at the beach?

With the amount of wear present, if found in the ground, I'm thinking a votive offering or maybe lost from a kid's coin collection.

Dave

 

[Aceinthehole]

I don't recognize this coin, but it strikes me as being European in origin, possibly Middle Eastern.
You didn't mention if you found this detecting. What was the setting you found it in... a park, a homesite or at the beach?

With the amount of wear present, if found in the ground, I'm thinking a votive offering or maybe lost from a kid's coin collection.

Dave

I was detecting at my in-laws in Delaware when my father-in-law brought out a box of coins. He had various coins dating from 1858 to 1921. A flying eagle and a few Morgans were in the same box. He asked for me to take a look....

 

[DCMatt]

I agree with CannonBallGuy. The letters appear to be V R intertwined in the late Victorian style (1890 give or take a decade).



The interlaced VR appears to be on both sides. One side has letters and the other side has a wreath.

My first thought was Victoria Regina. But there is no crown over the V R.

Maybe a token from the Diamond Jubilee?

 

[Icewing]

I think what you have is a Maharaja Rama Varma VI - One, Four, or Eight(?) Chuckram coin

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces26113.html

 

[HuntinDog]

Icewing nailed it!!

 

[Aceinthehole]

I think what you have is a Maharaja Rama Varma VI - One, Four, or Eight(?) Chuckram coin

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces26113.html

Wow! Thanks Icewing. I have no idea how you identified this one. Thanks everyone!

 

[sagittarius98]

I think what you have is a Maharaja Rama Varma VI - One, Four, or Eight(?) Chuckram coin

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces26113.html

Good ID with Travancore, but it's an 8 cash coin: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces24627.html. Diameter matches this one since OP says it's the size of a nickel.