ID Help, Bronze Medieval Coin With Wild Boar? Motif

It's French, around mid-sixteenth century.

I'm sure someone here has a copy of Duplessy...

Don't they call dolphins the boars of the sea?

I can check both Roberts and Duplessy in the am if someone hasn't gotten a ID by then.

Strikes me as more likely a jeton than a coin based on the legends.

Added: Not matches, but general type (dolphin/cross): https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8874149
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7244088

The first link is attributed as Mitchiner 488 var., so there is some hope to find it there.

That's what I ran into when searching google, but the reverse is quite different.

Jetons often took their designs from circulating coins, so the only thing I'm convinced of at this point... is that I need to get more books.

Maybe erafjel is checking in and can help.
I was also thinking that 27 mm is kind of large for what I am used to seeing for low denomination coins in very low grade billion. But I agree the reverse design is very "coin-ike" compared to other jetons as you've pointed out (that more ornate cross in the quadrilobe is way more common).

Oh, I'm here, have been following this, for sure.

My first thought was some sort of gros from the French province of Dauphiné, since they usually have some arrangement with dolphins and fleurs-de-lis. But a dolphin above a fleur-de-lis does not match any feudal or royal French coin, and the text does not make much sense. The closest are denier tournois issued for Dauphiné, but they have a dolphin and a fleur side by side, never on top of each other (plus those coins are much smaller).

And the text, well, it doesn't really look like anything from a French coin. So I too am inclined to think that this is a jeton of some kind.

I have no idea what the text may be, except for one thought: "soies" (if that is what it says) is plural of soie, the French word for silk, but it is also an ancient form of sois, 2nd person imperative of être ("is", "be", or "let" in English). It could mean "let yourself" or "you should be", followed by something ("emtexx"?). That could make sense on a jeton. (Compare with the motto of the British Order of the Garter, included in the UK royal coat of arms: Honi soit qui mal y pense, "Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it".)

Also, I would not be surprised if the date is back a bit further. That uncial e with the somewhat pointed backside, the uncial m a few characters later, and the L with the exaggerated upstroke on the right are more familiar to me on late 14th and 15th c. coins (at least in Low Countries), though maybe jeton engravers liked those older forms.