Help to ID ?? Cross Medallion??

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King William III Copper (1695-1703) Mid-Hudson Va
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Cool find! I can't wait to hear from the experts!
 

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Neat. It’s not Celtic. It’s a “Coptic” cross… an Eastern Catholic Symbol, widely used in Africa, and particularly in Ethiopian and Eritrean churches.

This one is antique, in gold, and very much stylised like yours:

Coptic1.jpg

These are also antique but less old, in silver, showing other variants of the style and from Ethiopia:

Coptic2.jpg

It's an item that's going to be very difficult to date, but the workmanship suggests it's certainly antique.
 

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