Can Someone Identify This Old Coin?

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bottimurillo90 Valued Member United States 202 Posts	Posted 06/02/2017 8:49 pm Hello! I have tried searching Asian coins to see if I could find Japanese Emperor or Chinese Emperor because the back of this coin seems to me like it would be Chinese or Japanese. Just my opinion I could be totally wrong. Hope you or someone can help identify this coin it would be greatly appreciated. I rec'd a message from a collector of Ancient coins he stated - Hi, I would guess this coin could possibly be from around 1400s-1700s. It could be European as well? Hope someone can give me an idea what this coin might be or what Country it would be from. Thank you * Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. * Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 06/02/2017 9:49 pm Not Chinese or Japanese, most likely European and after 1600. Report this Post to the Staff
Joseph7420 Bedrock of the Community Canada 11922 Posts	Posted 06/02/2017 10:52 pm That is a coin from the Ottoman Empire with the date of 1223 written on it. The regnal year does not look visible though, meaning the exact date cannot be determined (but it would be from the late 1820s to 1830s in the Gregorian calendar). An example of the 1 kurus can be found here, but if the coin does not have a diameter of around 27 millimetres, it would be of a different denomination. Edited by Joseph7420 06/02/2017 10:54 pm Report this Post to the Staff
bottimurillo90 Valued Member United States 202 Posts	Posted 06/03/2017 1:38 pm Thank you! This coin is the size of a Lincoln Penny so then would this be a different denomination? Report this Post to the Staff
Joseph7420 Bedrock of the Community Canada 11922 Posts	Posted 06/03/2017 2:39 pm Yup, it would be different. The Lincoln Cent is around 19 millimetres in diameter, narrowing this coin down to either a 10 para or a 20 para coin. The 10 para is 17 millimetres, and the 20 para is 21 millimetres, meaning the Lincoln Cent is exactly in the middle. So I have one other question then: is this coin slightly smaller or slightly larger than the cent? Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34419 Posts	Posted 06/03/2017 8:18 pm Nice work on this one @joseph7420! I worked on it for about a half hour and got absolutely nowhere. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
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