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turtleoverhead Pillar of the Community Australia 585 Posts	Posted 12/28/2011 08:20 am Report this Post to the Staff

alganbagerap Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2490 Posts	Posted 12/28/2011 08:29 am I'm thinking British India and possibly East India Company. Report this Post to the Staff
Apollo Pillar of the Community Canada 1610 Posts	Posted 12/28/2011 08:50 am I think so too, date, guess: latter half of the 1800's...why did you put it next to a cigarette... Edited by Apollo 12/28/2011 08:51 am Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16845 Posts	Posted 12/28/2011 09:09 am It's Ottoman Turkish, and a lot older than the 1800s. Both pics are upside down. At the bottom of the reverse (which would be at the top of your top pic) we see the date: 1106 (1695 AD). This is the accession year of Ottoman sultan Mustafa II. The mint name is just above the date: Edirne. My 1600s Krause lists two silver coins struck in Edirne with that date: the half-kurus (KM# 117.1, 9.43 grams, 28mm) and the kurus (KM# 121.1, 20.05 grams, 36mm). Both have the same design and are best distinguished by size. Unfortunately, I'm not a smoker, so I have no idea how big your coin is. 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
molydeii Pillar of the Community Turkey 870 Posts	Posted 12/28/2011 10:22 am It's an Ottoman Turkish coin - half kuruş. (yarım kuruş). It says : "es-Sultan Mustafa bin Mehmed Han dame mülke darebe fi Edirne sene 1066" on one side, and the other says "Sultan ül Bahreyn ve Hakan ül Bahreyn es sultan ibn es sultan" roughly translated as "The Sultan Mehmed's son Mustafa, owner of the land, minted in Edirne at the year 1066" and the other side is "King and the Emperor of the (huge) land, son of a Sultan, who is son of another Sultan" (like the any other way is possible-Haha!) There are three varieties of this coin, they're "mim-ha, ayn and ye" however I have no idea how to post Arabic letters to the forum. I live like an hour drive from Edirne, it's a very lovely coin to have! Edited by molydeii 12/28/2011 10:23 am Report this Post to the Staff
molydeii Pillar of the Community Turkey 870 Posts	Posted 12/28/2011 10:26 am And also, there coins has been copied back in their time, frequently, both to fool sellers and use as "penez" some sort of token and even copied to use as gaming tokens. Most copies aren't silver, and almost all I've seen lacks the correct weight. Report this Post to the Staff
turtleoverhead Pillar of the Community Australia 585 Posts	Posted 12/28/2011 3:21 pm Thank you all. I didn't take a picture with a cigarette, I am asking on the behalf of my friend. Report this Post to the Staff
nealeffendi Pillar of the Community Australia 852 Posts	Posted 12/28/2011 10:26 pm Sap, why is it unfortunate that your not a smoker? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16845 Posts	Posted 12/28/2011 11:26 pm Unfortunate in this particular circumstance, because I couldn't use the cigarette for scale purposes. 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
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