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Thick Bronze - Arabic With Lattice (?) Design

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ebay lot find:

Thick-Bronze---Arabic-With-Lattice-?-Design
Thick-Bronze---Arabic-With-Lattice-?-Design

I'm bad with these. It's definitely bronze or copper, struck on a very thick, uneven flan, and heavily worn. Didn't have a chance to measure it, but about 23x25mm, about 8 grams?

First thought was princely state, but couldn't find it on Numista.
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I think you've got it!

Thanks!

Any idea what that weird pattern is supposed to be?
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W.H. Valentine just has it described as an "arabesque"...page 30 of his "Modern Copper Coins of the Muhammadan States (diagram on page 31):

https://archive.org/details/moderncoppercoin00vale
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