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Help Identifying An Islamic / Arabic Coin

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 Posted 07/07/2012  11:22 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add bpmieszala to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello everyone. I've been looking at coins on this site for a while (particularly old US coins), but finally decided to make a username to ask a burning question. I've had this coin for several years now, found while cleaning out an old house and it was going to get thrown away, and saw it looked interesting, so I offered to keep it. I have no idea about any of it, except the language is Arabic or Islamic in nature, and it looks modern enough. Aside from that, I have no idea. Any help in identifying it would go a long way in satiating my curiosity. Thanks so much in advance! edit: also apologize if the picture on the right is upside down. Again everything about this coin eludes me so I had no idea what was upside down or right side up.

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07/07/2012 11:36 pm
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 Posted 07/07/2012  11:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add amida17 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
To CCF!

That script does not look Arabic to me, but I am by no means a linguist. I think this is some sort of fantasy token. How did you come upon it?
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It might not be, like I mentioned I know nothing about this coin, just that the text looked a bit Arabic or something from that area. I found it in a pouch of old coins while cleaning out a house of a person who had passed. I didn't want to take the entire pouch of coins so did some research and saw some were worth money, but asked to keep this one because I found absolutely nothing about it. It has been sitting around ever since. And thanks for the welcome
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Welcome, bpmieszala!

I agree with amida that the language is not Arabic (and the image is definitely not Islamic!)

The script looks made up, which goes along with the "fantasy piece" theory, with a bunch of snakes incorporated with it.

The obverse pictures Eve(?), and it looks to me that she is offered an apple.
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So it's nothing special really, just an interesting looking coin. Still good to know. Thanks for the responses, and if anyone recognizes where this is from, let me know!
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 Posted 07/08/2012  05:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hello and welcome.

The good news is, we've seen one of these on the forum before. Here's the old thread.

The bad news is, it doesn't really help you identify it, because we couldn't figure out exactly what it was back then, and I've no new ideas since. My best guess at the time was that the obverse (with the female figure) is a depiction of Nyx and Chaos, while the reverse is an extremely blundered "Arabic". Stylistically, it reminds me of the "magician's tokens" such as the one in this thread.
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