Silver medallion

[NewSouthCroweater]

Gday,

This medallion is silver - but not stamped that I can see.
Looks old by the staining (in the pic it has been cleaned) but not ancient.
Words say Yeahtan or Teahtan
...does anyone know anything ?
Greek or Roman letters above the Lion ?
thanks

NSC

[Snoopy36]

Holy Moly NSC - it looks like an ancient greek coin made into a medallion. If it's the real thing that may be worth a few hundred dollars! With your permission I'd like to post it on the coin forum and see if anyone there can identify it... Lemme know if that's ok.

Cheers
Snoopy

[NewSouthCroweater]

Snoopy,

Yeah sure
But...funny looking coin
- the face side is not round, its kind of oval shaped (sticks out in front of his mouth)
- it is concave ( dishes in) on the lion side and convex (rounded like a hill) on the face side
I've Never seen a coin thats not well pretty flat.

NSC

[NME]

Beautiful thing - congratulations. The concave/convex shape could easily be achieved in a silver coin when turned into a medallion (if it indeed is a coin).

[Snoopy36]

Hi NSC

I see you already posted this on the coin forum. Hopefully someone will have a response soon (well at least a better response than the one there this morning saying "looks like a jewellery charm")

Good luck
Snoop

[Snoopy36]

Hey NSC

I see you got some replies about this medallion on the Coin Forum. That forum is an awesome fountain of knowledge isn't it?

Ciao
Snoopy

[NewSouthCroweater]

Yeah, awesome - thanks Snoop. 

[Red]

NSC - the closest coin I could find with the wording is listed Lucania, Velia (at) 300 BCE didrachm similar to Sear 454  - scroll down 1/4 page.  

http://tjbuggey.ancients.info/Greek.html  

Still a nice medallion!  Cheers