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Unidentified Golden Horde? Coin With Six-Pointed Star

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 Posted 06/03/2019  11:58 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Yet another impulse 50-ruble purchase.

This time, the bin was full of random Golden Horde and Crimea Khanate coins; I might yet return to that place again, armed with a better catalog of those things.

The coin featured in this thread, however, was deliberately chosen for being hopefully easy to attribute. Alas, that didn't turn out to be the case...

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Side 1: six-pointed star, with three thin lines bisecting central hexagon, dots/pellets in various places, all within round border
Side 2: date in exergue, apparently _86 or less likely _16 [AH]; anything above the exergue is illegible; all within round border, apparently within dotted border
16x15 mm, 0.98 g


...I found a lot of similar "Star of David" puls on Zeno, but on pretty much all of those examples the central hexagon featured either the mint name, some clearly different ornament, or nothing at all.

The only exception was Zeno 142700, and even there I wasn't sure whether the hexagon contained three intersecting lines, or a mint name that happened to look kind of like three intersecting lines.
In any case, the other side of this example does not appear to have an exergue with the date (or enough space to fit one).

It is, obviously, possible that this isn't a Golden Horde coin at all (though I find it unlikely given the other stuff in the bin, much of which I recognized as Crimean).


Any help from the Islamic coin experts here?
(...Assuming we have any.)
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 Posted 06/04/2019  01:21 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
@j1m, while I am not the expert you seek, I'm interested to see the answer when you get it. Probably not a bad purchase for well less than one USD.

Consider reaching out to @kushanshah if he doesn't notice this thread.
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