Street tear out find

[jimzz977]

I found this religious pedant at a street tearout in the oldest part of town , I wondering if anyone can I'd it?? And how old

 

[Captain Caveman]

Congratz on a cool find! I would guess its a bit older due to the direction the chain loop.

 

[Subterranean]

Guadalupe De Mexico medallion, apparently old and well worn! Very cool and congrats on the find. Sub

 

[Jason in Enid]

I can tell you it's old. One, look at the dates of items found under the street there, then look at the level of wear on this pendent. Somebody wore that for a long time before losing it. It's so worn, that I can't make out the wording, but hopefully someone else here can. It looks to use a number of single letters in the place for words, and I haven't seen that on modern religious medals. If you aren't familiar with what I'm referring to, it used to be a common occurrence to use "OPN" in the place of "ora pro nobis" which is latin for "pray for us".

Lastly, is this silver? I know it looked bad when you dug it, but I thought it had that silver look, and now that it's mostly cleaned, it looks a LOT like silver. Just curious if you have tested it.

 

[jimzz977]

Going to go test it with the jeweler the oldest coins in that area was 1883 Indianhead penny and on my Mercury dimes the newest one was a 1920

 

[jimzz977]

Ok the jewelers say it was silver from early 1800s ,thanks you guys input and also said could have been made from old Spanish coin

 

[relic lover]

Can't be much help but I sure do like it no doubt it is super old