Any coin enthusiasts ?

[gbb]

Took the two grand daughters to town today, our usual routine. Today, we walked around the cathedral but the outside, not in. By the perimeter wall, eldest bent fown and picked this up

Incredibly lucky to find it, it was on top of some loose soil where the grass wasn't very established.

Early consensus seems it may be a 15th century jetton, probably European.

 

[Marchrider]

do come back and tell us when you find out more about them

 

[classic33]

Don't try cleaning it!!

 

[classic33]

From what can be made out in the 2nd picture, my money is on it being french.

 

[Asa Post]

For an accurate identification, try the local PAS: https://peterboroughmuseum.org.uk/the-portable-antiquities-scheme

 

[gbb]

A Hammered Coin detecting site think it may be a Sigismund Solidus ,(schilling), Polish in origin. It's a start. I suppose something like a cathedral would attract pilgrims from all over Europe, even hundreds of years ago
The S is similar although In photos of other coins, the ends to the S are slightly different but ....

 

[classic33]

I can find one for the front, but not with the "S" on the rear. Closest had a crown above the "S", missing on yours.

How large is it?

 

[Profpointy]

Here's my collection

Joking aside I am accumulating enough change for a planned poker game; a "cash" game rather a "tournament", so it's easier to use actual money rather than chips

 

[gbb]

Well, we've had some fun trying to identify it, medieval script on coins is varied according to region/country, some of it is illegible. When you look at the hundreds of samples of counting tokens on the internet, there seem to be as many different ones as there are samples so we will probably never know.

Weve decided, it's going back to the cathedral, we will hand it over in the hope it will go to a museum...and perhaps they can enlighten us a bit. No point keeping it, it will likely get lost and it has greater value elsewhere...

Edited to add... there's even a chance its not real, we have considered that....

 

[classic33]

Well, we've had some fun trying to identify it, medieval script on coins is varied according to region/country, some of it is illegible. When you look at the hundreds of samples of counting tokens on the internet, there seem to be as many different ones as there are samples so we will probably never know.

Weve decided, it's going back to the cathedral, we will hand it over in the hope it will go to a museum...and perhaps they can enlighten us a bit. No point keeping it, it will likely get lost and it has greater value elsewhere...

Edited to add... there's even a chance its not real, we have considered that....

Anything for size comparison?

 

[Buck]

My son collects coins. He thinks its a Polish coin from around 1600 - a medieval silver solidus coin.
From when Sigismund III Vasa was ruler.

He‘s off to do more research and i’ll update if he finds out more.

 

[Buck]

Here’s a link he sent me

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces78799.html

 

[gbb]

My son collects coins. He thinks its a Polish coin from around 1600 - a medieval silver solidus coin.
From when Sigismund III Vasa was ruler.

He‘s off to do more research and i’ll update if he finds out more.

I believe it's a jetton or counting coin, very thin and seems to be very dark, not shiny as you'd expect silver to be...but perhaps that's just eons of time spent in the ground. Im not going to clean it for fear of ruining it.
It makes sense, the script appears as (* indicating its illegible)
***mundus V , then there's an A then something like SLV
Crown topped with a cross and orb, what look like oak leaf trefoil within.

It's amazing to think it could be a pilgrim from Eastern Europe who's travelled all that way, crossed the Channel 400 years ago...and dropped it in the grounds of the cathedral, to be picked up hundredsnof years later

 

[gbb]

Contacted the cathedral as it isn't ecclesiastical they suggest the museum would be perfect.
Museum contacted by email, they've replied that it needs to be assessed by the Finds Local Officer, as would metal detecting finds, and ultimately the museum would like to aquire it, given it does appear to be a Sigismund 3rd from the 1600s and would highlight the backstory of how trade and travel from that region occured, even hundreds of years ago.