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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;VexedOldHag, post: 9784104, member: 86630&quot;]This is of a heavy (for its size, which is between a quarter and a .50 piece), dull metal.</p><p>It was found decades ago in the drawer of an antique sewing machine, with a bunch of silver Catholic medals. It was blackened, and took ages to clean.</p><p><br /></p><p>The image is of Abraxas, the rooster headed creature of Gnostic origin, and the lettering on the obverse side is the Greek lettering and ouroboros found on Abraxas amulets.</p><p>I cannot find any online exactly like it, only modern reproductions, and one in bronze that was ancient.</p><p><br /></p><p>The wear is that which occurs over time, the edge wear, typical. The semicircle at one end seems to have been a hole originally with one edge gone; the other two holes were filled with blackened debris when first found.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone is familiar, I&#039;m mostly curious to have it dated. I suspect it is either pewter or lead?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484078[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]484079[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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