Help Me To Identify A Coin

I do not recognize this coin. It looks odd with that sprue on it, and the writing appears to be Arabic. Perhaps it is an Ottoman coin? There are those on this forum who will probably recognize this and will comment as they see it.

Regards,

The "sprue" seems to be a pendant fitting.
There seems to be the eastern Arabic numerals "80" on the coin in the first photo.
You will get better attribution if you go to Forum ancient Coins' Islamic coins thread, and post there.

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/bo...p?board=24.0

avik
is there a hole in the (spru)? Looks like it was formed with the coin, if so it's probably a pendant. If it was soldered on then it may be a coin.

Compared to ancients, later Islamic silver seems to more often survive ex-jewelry. Most are holed but this one has a fitting added. It is not appropriate to call this a sprue which is a remnant of the casting process for the blank rather than anything sticking out. I do not know anything about modern Indian coins but strongly suspect this is not older than about 1800 and agree with Masis' calling it Moghul.

I recently attended a Burmese wedding and discovered a tradition where the ring used was made from silver donated by family. Old (19th century) silver was considered lucky and anything Asian was OK since Indian and Thai coins were well known over a large range. I suspect that coins like this once adorned a lady with enough wealth to hang coins from her clothing and many later would be salvaged (perhaps melted?) when the cloth was no longer serviceable.