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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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3 coins, don't know which is the front or back, up or down. Coin 1 119m 1.73g Coin 2 22mm 1.75g Coin 3 19mm 1.29g       Anybody tell me more about them please? Moved to World Coins forum - Sap |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You might have to go to the world guys for this, they are most likely 18-19th century. (Modern coins)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ottoman empire. Agree with time frame as per Anoob.
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Pillar of the Community
 United Kingdom
3626 Posts |
Thanks both. To the bay with them.
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Moderator
 United States
23731 Posts |
Interesting coins, but not ancient.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
3626 Posts |
They don't do anything for me, so happy to get rid of them. Perhaps if they had been of better quality I might have kept them.
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Valued Member
United States
206 Posts |
Hi, I don't collect foreign coins but I did handle a few when I worked in an Israeli museum a lifetime ago (long story). I can't read Arabic but I can make out a Hijri date in your third picture: ١٢٧٧ (1277) which corresponds to the Greogorian calendar year of 1860/61.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Thanks Chetzler I will make a note of that.
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Valued Member
United States
206 Posts |
Also, regarding the third picture, if you rotate it about 45 degrees counter-clockwise (so that the long stroke is horizontal), it will be "up". Additionally, if you rotate your second pic 90 degrees clockwise, then it will also be "up". For the last image, a rotation of 90 degrees counter-clockwise will bring it "up".
I can sort of start to see a date in the second and last pictures, but I would need a clearer image.
If you rotate the coins as indicated above and then photograph both sides again noting which way you flipped them (along the vertical or horizontal axis) I could probably tell you whether they are "medal" or "coin" alignmnet.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Thanks Chetzler, I will do it tomorrow, it is late this side of the pond!
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Valued Member
United States
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Ah, I understand! I'll look forward to seeing more pics. You sure have brought back a few memories! Thanks for sharing!
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Moderator
Australia
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They are indeed modern world coins, from the Ottoman Empire. I've moved the thread for you.  #1 is a copper mangir struck in Constantinople and dated 1099 (AD 1687). Listed in Krause under "Turkey" as KM# 87.2. #2 is from Egypt, which was still technically under Ottoman rule in the mid-1800s but de facto heavily under British and French influence. This coin is a 4 para, dated to the 4th year of reign of the sultan who acceded in 1277. This converts to 1280, or AD 1863. Listed as Egypt KM# 240. #3 is too far gone for me to be much help, apart from confirming it is Ottoman Turkish; I can see the toughra on one side and the TNT of "Constantinople" on the other. 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
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