✅ SOLVED Please help identify this coin

Garrobo

Tenderfoot
Sep 17, 2013
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Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Anyone ever see something like this?
It’s copper, about the size of a half dollar and looks like it’s been in someone’s pocket for a while.
Found it in sand at 2 inches. Appreciate the help.
 

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Are you able to read what it says on the back around the edge? Looks like ANTIONE?

In searching for a matching example, I came across a lot of medals with a similar reverse that were listed as Vatican/Papal Medals.

For example: Jencius Coins - Gregory XIII 1575 Holy Door Medal

Obviously not the same but it kind of reminds me of yours.

It's strange that the bust on yours is so off-center.
 

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Not much detail on it and I would probably make it worse by cleaning it. Someone carried that for a long time, sorry they dropped it. Here in Miami there’s not a lot of old stuff to find unless it washes up on the beach. There weren’t a lot of people here until AC was invented. Thanks very much
 

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My son said it might be Cyrillic script, could that be possibility? (Symbols above the pillars)
 

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Thanks guys. Grasshopper that’s most probably the Holy Door on the back and Antonius (died 1459 when Columbus was a boy) on the front. It’s going in my jar of strange finds.
 

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