Need Help Identifying!

My mother (and grandparents) lived in Greece for a spell. I was given this as a youngster and never knew much about it other than the language seems Greek and my guess is orthodox. I know it is not a coin per-say but it is round-ish and made of metal. Any help would be appreciated!

Hello! Surelly it is not a coin but as I see it is holed,have you checked it for gold? Possible religious medal made of gold?

Andi 

P.S.: The lettering is in russian/bulgarian/serbian script NOT in greek alphabeth!

Is the image reversed like in a mirror?

Can you get us a picture of it flat?

This is in old Cyrillic (Russian) script, used for church-related stuff and writings.

It's difficult to make out exactly what it says and I'm not very well versed in the script/language, but here's what I can make out:

икона наход в новом афоне

на кавказе 

*икона - icon (religious image)

*нахо(д) - The last letter there doesn't look like any Cyrillic letter. Kinda looks like Lating “d”, so that's what I put in, and then the word sort of looks meaningful. Could be an old word that I don't know, could be short for “находится” which means “is located in.” Could be something else tho.  The root наход can mean “find”.

*в новом - in new

*афоне - I think this is what it says. I couldn't read it at first, but then tried a few things and this city Новый Афон in Abkhazia came up, and it has some similar-looking monasteries, so this is a possibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Athos

*на кавказе - in the region of Caucasus mountains.

So something about an icon in New Athos in the Caucasus. 

Highly unlikely that it's gold. Perhaps someone can do better than I did.

I will try to post a picture of it flat. The text is as seen. I could see how it looks reversed and maybe it was pressed as a reverse from another image…I have no idea. It is not Armenian is it?

Hi! No,no,NOT armenian,NOT greek script! Surelly cyrillic/slavonian(old russian aprox.) as you were already told twice…

More info.?!

If we were able to read the saints' names around their halos, this might also help.

Possible Anthony for the older saint (on left)?

While there were many saints named Anthony, one of them is associated with the founding of monasticism in Georgia. which fits with Koepeika's idea, that this is a religious medal associated with a monastery.  

The word in the middle is симон - Simon. Googling quickly yielded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_the_Zealot

There's a St. Simon the Zealot's (Simon Kananaios) cave in Abkhazia, Georgia.

Can't make out anything coherent for the saint on the right.

 The first image, with the building, is of 

Monastery of St. Simon Kananites, New Athos, Abkhazia, Georgia 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St._Simon_the_Canaanite,_New_Athos 

ZacUK

 The first image, with the building, is of Monastery of St. Simon Kananites

I thought so too at first, but the building in the medallion has two bell-towers. Was one destroyed at some point perhaps?

*indeed, looks like it was reconstructed in 1880s and half of it looks much newer in the current picture.

 Saint Simon is linked to Saint Jude - maybe that is the other figure.