Unidentified Islamic / Ottoman / Turkish Gold Coins

Well, I hope you did not pay too much for those two. The first one is not real; it is a token that was made for jewelry purposes. The give-off to that is the regnal year at the top of the first picture, which reads 78. No ruler from the Ottoman Empire has reigned for that long, so it is an impossible date. Those tokens were supposed to imitate real gold coins (for those who wanted to wear gold coins but could not afford them), and are typically made of brass. Yours looks less brass-like than most I have seen, so I would guess it could have been gold-plated.

As for the last one: I have never seen anything like that before, and I cannot seem to find one like it. Not only is the year 122 extremely odd, but that coin looks way to crude for me to believe it is real. My vote on that one is that it is a counterfeit.

Thanks for the help. The only thing that is odd if you are right is that they both tested as gold. Seems to be a lot of trouble to go through to make fake gold coins rather then just use real ones.

They are both jewellery replicas, and if they actually do test positive for gold, then the fineness is probably lower than what the genuine coins were made of. The "Year 1223//78" coins are quite commonly encountered on the forum and are usually brassy; example.

Examine the holes closely. Does the metal look like gold all the way through, or is it more greyish in the middle, with a yellow coating?