Italy: Bordighera 20 000 lire

[ZYV]

Help to ID the object, please.

[ZYV]

And the other side. 

[Prosit]

Bordighera is a  city in Italy.

Here is an interesting painting by Claude Monet of Bordighera

[Abhay]

And Antonio Ligabue was an Italian Painter.

So, most probably, an Italian Medal, dedicated to the Painter.

Abhay

[Prosit]

Interesting.
You have a medal image posted from someone in the Ukraine and comments very quickly from fellows in Texas and India about an Itallian medal.  You got to love the internet and WoC's !!!

Dale

[chrisild]

That is a local token ("Buono da L. 20.000"). Not sure who issued it, but in February 1981 there was a Ligabue exhibition in Bordighera ...

(Edit) The face value, so to say, is fairly high: 20,000 lire would be more than €10 today.

Christian

[ZYV]

...an Italian Medal, dedicated to the Painter.

Friends, thank You for quick comments, but the object has indication of nominal value.
I found in the Internet similar issue of Milano.
But no traces of this Bordighera "coin".

[Prosit]

It isn't unusual for tokens to have a stated value. It is quite common in fact.
Dale

Friends, thank You for quick comments, but the object has indication of nominal value.
I found in the Internet similar issue of Milano.
But no traces of this Bordighera "coin".

[ZYV]

It isn't unusual for tokens to have a stated value...

But not for medals, as You attributed the object earlier. 

[ZYV]

The face value, so to say, is fairly high...

And silver 986 is not a material for many tokens. 

[Prosit]

Medal...token...the difference of course is if you could actually turn it in for something. That we don't know.
Dale

But not for medals, as You attributed the object earlier. 

[Prosit]

Here is a medal/token I have: Value = 100 Schilling, Metal 0.835 Silver
I have others too but like you say they aren't all that common in Silver.
Dale

And silver 986 is not a material for many tokens. 

[ZYV]

Here is a medal/token I have: Value = 100 Schilling, Metal 0.835 Silver

It isn't a medal.
It's game (casino) token.
Quite simple thing.   

[chrisild]

Dale, I moved your post about the "Orthler" here:
http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php/topic,577.0.html

Christian

[chrisild]

There are in fact a few (very few) Italian coins where the face value is preceded by "buono da" (ie. good for), such as the 1 lira and 2 lire pieces issued in the 1920s and 30s. Those are actually coins, but this piece from Bordighera just has the name of the town, not of a country. So while we still don't know what it is, I think it is safe to call it a token or maybe a voucher ...

Christian