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 Posted 07/11/2010  10:31 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add DCH to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Any ideas on this one?
It came to me in a collection of primarily Indian sultanate coppers.

11.2 grains, .68 grams. Gold colored.
~8mm diameter, ~1.5mm thick.

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 Posted 07/12/2010  03:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The edge reminds me of mediaeval Sri Lankan coppers, but I couldn't find any moon-and-star types from there, in any metal.
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 Posted 07/12/2010  03:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add turtleoverhead to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sap doesn't know, it means only one thing:
This coin doesn't exist.
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 Posted 07/12/2010  04:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add molydeii to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I see a crescent and a star, cerscent and the star has been used in mainly Turkey and Pakistan. Since, Turkey was founded in 1923 (before that was the Ototman Empire and they NEVER did use star-and-crescent in coins, finding it a Turkish symbol not an Ottoman symbol) it could be Pakistani, considering it came with a group of Indian Sultanate coins. There is this Arabic word on the other side that reminded me of the word "Allah" or "Maasallah" (God, or God's Grace) but I am not sure, I am just guessing based on teh design I do not have experience in that area.
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Is that shine on high points, or basemetal?
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Is that shine on high points, or basemetal?

The high points are still a goldish color, but darker.
It may be gilded base metal, brass or a low grade gold alloy. It seems a bit light to me for gold.
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