Roman, Trajan ???

Interesting find.. wish I could help... have not seen that before... good luck.. RickO

Don't know, but cool find Gander! Hopefully someone here can help!

Looks like design work

Looks like design work, would not want to speculate on authenticity. There are many coins and medallions with Trajan's likeness on them. This one looks to be copied from a Trajan Æ Sestertius.

The British Museum Dept. of Coins and Medals has a medallion/coin with the same inscription (imp caes nervae traino avc ger dac pm trp cos v ppm). There are also many examples on the web.

A little about Trajan:

Roman warrior emperor Trajan (98-117) dating to between 103 and 111 C.E. Trajan led his Roman armies into battle himself. The Roman dominions were taken to their greatest geographical extent by Trajan and remained relatively stable for about 50 years. The philosopher emperor Marcus Aurelius died of old age in 180 C.E. defending Trajan's conquests in Germany after fighting Parthians and Germans for most of his career.

Still cool looking! Hope this helped a little bit.

Thanks traveler for your help. I will cut and paste this into ms word and add it to the mystery of this coinage's description.

Thanks again.

perhaps it is some kind of souvenir?

from a museum...

Definitely modern. They copied it from a coin of Trajan (obviously a worn example, since they left off the "I" that should have started IMP. Probably part of jewelry, definitely not intended to deceive a collector.

-- Tom