Coin to identify, possibly medieval French

Can anyone help identify the following coin, which might be French.


Side A: A narrow outer circle carrying an inscription in Latin lettering surrounds a large inner central area. The inscription is difficult to read, partly due to its antique lettering but also because the letters are quite worn, and the tops of some letters have been clipped off in places.

The large central area is occupied by a flat-topped shield (quartered) with a fifth oval area where the four quarters intersect in the centre. Above the shield is a curlicue resembling a stylised crown. To the right of this curlicue (and for symmetry, perhaps also to the left, though it is difficult to be certain because of wear) are 3 tilde-like shapes, one above another, with a third single tilde to the right.

Description of the shield

Top right quarter: 3 fleur-de-lys (two above a third), suggesting French origin.

Lower right quarter: not very clear, but a vertical shape, possibly a lion rampant.

Lower left quarter: 3 diagonal bars, sloping down left to right.

Top left quarter: not clear – too worn.

Central oval area: not clear – too worn.

Side B: As with Side A, a narrow outer circle with Latin-lettered inscription, surrounding a large inner area which is too worn to yield details.

Diameter: about 27-28mm Thickness: about 1-1.5mm. Weight: 4.5gr

The coin is non-magnetic (suggesting a non-ferrous metal) and coloured dark brown, though this may be due to patination than its original colouration.

Thanks.

Ozmy19

COA is clearly Spanish netherlands from Felipe II (Brabant, Flanders, etc...) but the wording on reverse is not the usual DOMINVS MIHI ADIVTOR , size and weight are a bit more than the usual Liard/Oord ...
I you could decypher, it would help

pictures are not very clear

Thank you both, Frenchlover and PetrusAscanus.

I have great difficulty reading coin inscriptions of this age, but I'll try - then let you know.

Thanks again.

ozmy

Does the second side have a bust or a standing figure?

Hi,
The first pic is okay, but the second, i can barely see a thing. Could you take a better one ?

right picture:
BE NEDICT+SIT+NO MEN+DO mINI+
benedictum sit nomen domini ???
Looks like the coat of arrms of the Habsburg Netherlands:

My guess is that this is a Nuremberg jeton.

First of all, thank you everyone who has replied so far.

One correspondent claims this is a Spanish Netherlands coin. It certainly looks very like some coins from the Spanish Netherlands. In particular, the design of the Brabant 1 Korte of Felipe II (1569-79), https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces105158.html

This design closely matches the design on my coin (3 fleur-de-lys and 3 sloping bars), but the inscription (DOMINVS MIHI ADIVTOR) and the size and weight are all different.

A design feature on side A (the shield side)
(1) Practically all Spanish Netherlands coins show a crown above the shield whose arches are decorated with jewels. There is NO such crown on my coin! Instead, a central curlicue replaces the crown. See my drawing of this device below:-



There are 3 tilde-like devices to the right of the curlicue, and possibly a similar arrangement to the left, though only blurred marks now remain on this side.

After looking at all the coins listed under “Spanish Netherlands” on the en.numista website, just about the nearest match I can find to this curlicue is a 1 Korte coin for Gelderland - but everything else on the Gelderland coin is totally different from my own coin.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces85065.html
None of the Brabant coins illustrated on en.numista’s website show a curlicue.

Inscriptions
On side A of my coin, about 75% of the inscription has been worn away. On side B, about 90% of everything has been worn away!

(i) On side A, starting above the right-hand curve of the curlicue, approximately the first quarter of the inscription can be read, which might read:
(a) BON*V BRO... [or BRV…]
(b) BOVIV BRO... [or BRV….]
(c) BOMV BRO….[or BRV….]
* the‘N’ symbol is written in reverse with the diagonal line sloping UP from bottom left to top right.

NONE of these readings looks like: DOMINVS MIHI ADIVTOR (the inscription on the reverse of the 1 Korte of Felipe II.

(ii) Still on side A, if the coin is rotated 180 degrees (so that the shield on the other side now points upwards), another string of letters appears: VON*E[?]V…..[with the same ‘backward’ written ‘N’ noted above.] The remaining inscription has been worn away on this side.

On side B, what appear to be the letters DIOR occur at a point corresponding to the tip of the shield on the other side. Everything else on side B is either worn away, or perhaps only readable to a trained palaeographer or an expert on Spanish Netherland coins.

Someone asked if there was a figure standing on side But as the blue-coloured photo above shows, much of side B is too worn to be decipherable.

The physical details suggest this is not a Brabant coin. I’ve weighed it twice using different scales but it still weighs 4.5gr each time. The weight plus the diameter (27-28mm) don’t seem to fit any of the Brabant coins listed on en.numista.

So instead of being a Brabant coin, could it be a Brabant token – perhaps a jeton? Or a Nuremburg jeton, as someone else has suggested?

ozmy19

Here is a jeton of the type with coat of arms and standing figure.
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3129758

Thank you. I'm about 90% sure that you have correctly identified this item as a Spanish Netherlands jeton from Flanders (a 'Venus Penny'), dated c. 1510.

ozmy19