Totally stumped. Need help with coin ID - winner will get a SILVER prize!!!

[Joe777Cool]

Got this as part of a lot of coins I purchased. Size is a little bigger than a US half dollar, weight is 10.7 grams. Coin does not appear to be silver (sound/sight).



Good luck!!

 

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[treasuredog]

I would say a russian kopeck coin.

 

[Joe777Cool]

Gonna need year/denomination to win!

 

[Mackaydon]

Do you know for a fact that the item is really a coin?
Don.......

 

[Joe777Cool]

no, i do not know with any certainty if it is a coin or not - but it was mixed in with 1000 other coins....

 

[Mackaydon]

What were you told, if anything, about the item when you purchased the lot?

 

[kaiser613]

I cant tell from the photo, on the side without the eagle ( im assuming the reverse) does that edge lettering appear to take up the entire edge or could there be a wreath in there under that wear?

 

[Joe777Cool]

What were you told, if anything, about the item when you purchased the lot?

nothing. i have found coins in the lot from south america, asia, euope mostly.

 

[Joe777Cool]

I cant tell from the photo, on the side without the eagle ( im assuming the reverse) does that edge lettering appear to take up the entire edge or could there be a wreath in there under that wear?

lettering takes up most of the edge it appears, i dont think i see a wreath

 

[kaiser613]

ive checked everything I got on Russian coins and that eagle doesn't match any of them at all, the wings and neck curvature is all wrong, if more of that lettering was there I could at least tell weather or not it is cyrillic

 

[kaiser613]

not Russian or Austrian, im stumped, for now, can anyone get anything out of that lettering

 

[Mackaydon]

Thinking outside the box--and under the influence of a glass of Merlot.....it may be two winged creatures holding hands, facing one another, each wearing a backwards bending crest in the form of an eagles' head or perhaps a serpents' heads.
Don........

 

[kaiser613]

that one novel approach don but it does give me an idea, ill be back!

 

[kaiser613]

well its not Albanian, time to bite the bullet and start checking the german states, this could take a while......

 

[Mackaydon]

I don't think it's a double headed eagle since the legs are 'different' (facing one another).
Don.........

 

[kaiser613]

you know what your right, the legs brought it all into frame for me, now I have absolutely no idea where to start!

 

[Joe777Cool]

1 Conventionsthaler - Friedrich August III - German states - Numista

this looks rather similar, went through all the German State's and no luck. Also went through Greece and Russia.

 

[SCDigginWithAK]

Almost looks like this. On your coin I think I see the date 1222

 

[Mackaydon]

The 1234 Roskilde Denier (pfennig, penning, etc) holds the title of earliest coin with an Anno Domini date.
So, unless the OP's 'coin' is a record breaker, the 1222 date, if seen, cannot be the date of the 'coin'--if it is a coin.
Don....

 

[Joe777Cool]

I thought I saw 1222 as well for what its worth