I've been searching for a matching picture for this coin for some time with no success. Its impossible to read anything on it. There is a 'cross of Christ' (not a cross of Malta) in one side and on the opposite face there are laurels. Someone could help identify this coin?
Its heavy but I think its not lead. Its not atracted by magnets, I tested. Ive been looking again and found there are six letters on the first line of the laurels side. Looks like 'EMELISI' , but can be anything like that.
I found some possible matching kinds of crosses: 'formée' , 'pattée', Iron Cross and even some crusaders crosses. But none with that internal pattern of paralel lines with an internal greek cross .
I do not know the origin of the coin but I can guarantee it is not Portuguese.
The out cross is similar to the Military Order of Christ. However there is a inner single cross and the combination does not exists in the Portuguese coins.
It looks like a modern coinage, perhaps a medal, and heavy hammered.
Its very possible that its a medal or part of one.
'en celsi' doesnt exists in latin, according Google translator. Would be 'excelsi' ?
I found a monastery in Portugal which have crosses like this one: with an inner straight cross , therefore it can be portuguese.
At first I thought that the arms of the cross were curvy , but now I think they are geometric like one maltese cross . The cross is just deformed, but its made with straight lines , not curves .