Unknown French item - with apple and harp

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This section is 'Coin identifications and valuations' but not sure if it is a coin. Luckily this is a French site, so hopefully someone can identify. Diameter 17mm and thickness 3mm and looks like brass.
Side one: apple in centre, with lettering over top reading  VOUS LA MÉRITEZ.  in reverse.
Side two: harp in centre, with lettering over top reading  TOUJOURS D'ACCORD.  in reverse.

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
Zac,
It is beautiful, I think it is a token though. No date etc.
Yes - no country, or date, or denomination. Maybe it was used to make something from, though, as the lettering is backwards; and pressed inwards - so whatever it created would then have the lettering the correct way round and outwards. Plus it could create two different things, as it is double-sided, as shown. Thanks  :)

P.S. It is hard to show in a picture that the design and lettering are all pressed in ...

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
It's a wax seal. I think. Vous la meritez...from the French phrase You deserve the best that life can offer...and the other side Toujours d'accord...Everyday okay (Literal translation).

http://www.etsy.com/listing/70599038/your-choice-of-pendant-antique-wax-seal

They are really pretty and there is even one that has the same harp with Toujours d'accord on it.

The thickness is the same. I didn't take an hour but returning the favour!
 :love:  Nice! So a seal for wax, from 1810 then. I was wondering how it was held in the hand as it is fairly small, and the hot wax might get on fingertips. I see they come in a tube in two of the five pictures on your link. Now I know what it is and it is over 200 years old, I want more - if only I could remember who I got it from. Thanks  8)
Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
I'm intrigued as to where you got it. It is so coinish that it is desirable. (If nobody has coined that term I'm having it along with PUNC Practically UNC.

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