relic rescuer
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Looks like pewter to me, and not a coin, more of a token or medallion. Also looks to be cast. Probably not as old as you might think it is. I am somewhat of a numismatist, as I have a coin collection that weighs probably 50 pounds. And some that go back to BC. No explaining depth sometimes. My best find is also the best find ever found (at only 4 inches deep, probably lost in the 1850's, you could have found it with a pin pointer) around Fort Steilacoom, Wa. That is now a mental hospital. (Started after the Civil War, and Indian Wars.) It was in an abandoned golf course. Together with a few friends, we found trail of coins, and mine was the second to last, and in the best shape. Anyway, there was a guy there named George Edward Pickett. He fought in the Mexican War (Where this one came from) Then came up here, and is responsible for building Fort Bellingham and his house is a block away, and is the only house still standing (oldest in Wa.) without a real foundation. He married a Native woman and had one child, a son. He went down south and fought for them in the Civil War, and got his ass kicked on the last day of Gettysburg. I can't say for sure it belonged to him, but the history sure points that way. Just for scale, an 8 Reale is bigger than a silver dollar. I swing an AT Max.