Hello my friends,
Can anybody help me with information/determination about this counter token?
weight: 3.5gr
material: cu or brass
diam.: 28mm
One side in the middle a double monogram "M", under it the year 1476. The text that I can read is:+PROTE *GAT?????*MINU????°DOMINI
Other side: shield, text: PROTE????MI?????SUDUM????RAA
I am not sure that is 1476.
The second digit is more likely a 5 (I know that sounds hard to believe, but 4 was not written like this in 1476). But 5 was also unlikely to have been written like that in 1576.
Maybe 1516?
No answer, but a couple of thoughts:
There were some coins made in your part of the world during the regency of Maximilian for Philip the Fair (1480s-1490s) with an M monogram, and Hapsburg coat of arms reverse, but this is not a match. So, maybe it is a token imitating a coin of Maximilian? https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5055476
Also if the second image was rotated 45 degrees to the right, it would make a
diamond shape in the middle, with a double-headed eagle behind. Maybe.
A drawing with on the right the eagle beak and some feathers. Maybe. Shield Monogram
Description:
TOKENS
SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS,
Cu jeton, 1536, Bruges. Margaret of Austria.
D / The hand of God protecting the housekeeper's monogram.
R / Diamond shield placed on the imperial eagle.
Dugn. 1320; van Mieris II, 454, 2. 4.46 # g
Change the lettering
MANVS DOMINI PROTE GAT ME
to
MANVS DOMINI PROTEGAT ME
to
MANUS DOMINI PROTEGAT ME
Translation:
May the hand of the Lord protect me
Which is the hand shown over the Margaret monogram.
The same token has 1535 1536 1543 1544 dates, and probably others.
Change the lettering
SVB VMBRA ALARVM TVARVM PROTE GEME
to
SVB VMBRA ALARVM TVARVM PROTEGE ME
to
SUB UMBRA ALARUM TUARUM PROTEGE ME
Translation:
Protect me under the shadow of Thy wings
