What Is This Image ? (Id: Likely Algeria Shareholders Meeting Commemorative Medal)

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djboys New Member Indonesia 0 Posts	Posted 09/12/2023 08:36 am * Moved by Staff moved to a more appropriate forum. * Does anyone know if this is a coin or a medal? Please, if anyone can provide information about this image.I hope this is helpful! Let me know if you have any other questions. Edited by djboys 09/12/2023 08:59 am Report this Post to the Staff

John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 09/12/2023 08:48 am Report this Post to the Staff
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Sap Moderator Australia 16872 Posts	Posted 09/12/2023 09:34 am It is not a coin, but a medal - presumably made with a mount attached, which has since broken off. The obverse legend in indecipherable to me; the script is not regular Arabic or Persian. All I can say for sure, is that the same word appears twice. I'm not entirely sure of the origin, but if I had to guess, my guess would be pre-revolutionary Iran. Googling the phrase "Sum et impero" (Latin for "and I command") comes up with a couple of old auction listings for this medal; one describes it as "Arabic", the other describes it as "Egyptian" and identifying the portrait as that of Ibrahim Pacha, who briefly ruled Ottoman Egypt in 1848. I'm not fully certain either listing is actually accurate. I'm not entirely sure why an Egyptian, Arabic or Iranian medal would have a Latin inscription, though. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Brummagem Valued Member United States 128 Posts	Posted 09/13/2023 10:41 am Here's one of the auction listings mentioned by Sap. A Baldwin's sale from 2012. Report this Post to the Staff
jecz79 Pillar of the Community Portugal 682 Posts	Posted 09/13/2023 6:13 pm The art style I think it is western, end of the nineteenth century or beginning of the twentieth. I can believe that Baldwin's description. Report this Post to the Staff
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