619_805_okie Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 Anyone have any idea what this might be? I doubt it is mission related but you never know! Found on the beach near a mission... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geologyhound Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 Does the back have anything on it, perhaps fragments of text? Or is it just flat? Is there anything around the rim which may indicate a loop for a chain was ever attached? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
619_805_okie Posted March 26, 2023 Author Share Posted March 26, 2023 Back is just inverse of the front... nothing on the rim... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPT_GhostLight Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 Very nice find! That looks like an old stamped religious medallion or button face. I found a very similar looking artifact that turned out to be the front of a two-piece button from a priest's coat. Here's the button for reference. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_Cobra Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 Could be a button front, or maybe a Victorian era front to a broach, hat pin, or something stamped out. IMHO it's not mission period, I think Western era or later. Maybe @Tom_in_CA will take a peek. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
619_805_okie Posted March 28, 2023 Author Share Posted March 28, 2023 6 hours ago, Cal_Cobra said: Could be a button front, or maybe a Victorian era front to a broach, hat pin, or something stamped out. IMHO it's not mission period, I think Western era or later. Maybe @Tom_in_CA will take a peek. Thanks cal. I messaged with tom a bit yesterday. I appreciate the help from you all. The hunt goes on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. MI Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 It does look religious. Nice find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_in_CA Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 23 hours ago, 619_805_okie said: Thanks cal. I messaged with tom a bit yesterday. I appreciate the help from you all. The hunt goes on And my answer was that it doesn't mimic the norm of medallions we find at alta CA mission period medallions. (1770s to ~ 1830s) But heck, nor does a lot of the medallions they find in Britain necessarily mimic the type that seem to show up in our CA mission sites either. But as we know : They're super old. You say "found on a beach", so do you mean : On the beach itself ? Then in THAT case, 50 or 75 yrs. of perpetual in-out surf action can create the effect of making an otherwise modern medallion, look old. Even if you found it in the higher dry sand, yet : That sand could have been prior inter-tidal zone (since beaches erode out and sand-back in, such that was is sand dunes NOW was not necessarily dry in the 1950s, for example). So if you found it on the beach, then my guess is modern. Well, I mean it could still be 1920s or 1950s or whatever, but it's not unusual for regular wheaties to take on an "ancient look" and emerald green after getting beach kissed for 50 to 90 years. Also, you gave me the name of the mission, and I pointed out to you there's not actually a mission where you pointed out. Oh sure, it was within the realm of influence (place names, outlying ranchos, etc...) of a CA mission. But so too can the same be said of most all of the coastal real estate from So. CA all the way to north of SF, and the coastal valleys . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsb Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Am i seeing a figure standing over another? If so it's depicting a bible story scene. Mary praying over Christ's body?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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