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TTerrier New Member Canada 22 Posts	Posted 10/26/2019 7:18 pm Hi everyone, I am looking for help in figuring out the mint for this coin. If I can sort that out I will post a complete description of this coin in another post. You can see quite clearly at bottom the numerals 974 which puts this in Selim II's reign. I think the top line is 'azz nasrahu - may he be victorius. The next line is zuriba bi - struck in. Then I am stumped - it looks like the first letter of the mint name is "s" but I looking at the all of the "s" mints I can't see a match. Any help appreciated! Report this Post to the Staff

Kushanshah Pillar of the Community United States 1554 Posts	Posted 10/27/2019 10:53 pm Siroz (s-r-w-z aka Siruz, Serez, Serres) Report this Post to the Staff
TTerrier New Member Canada 22 Posts	Posted 10/28/2019 3:57 pm Thanks @Kushanshah! I looked at this mint and have another coin from Serez where it looks to be spelled differently. On the coin above, would the transliteration be s-i-r-u-z? It looks to me like there is a ya (long i)after the s given the number of vertical lines. Diacritical marks would really help but the engravers seem to ignore them for the most part. Report this Post to the Staff
Kushanshah Pillar of the Community United States 1554 Posts	Posted 10/28/2019 7:30 pm I suspect the 4th radical is intended to be the top of the "r". Note 'azza, nasrahu and numeral 9 are blundered as well. I found only one example of this mint and date on Zeno, also blundered. Steve Album commenting on the Zeno specimen tends to think it is official. Perhaps the mint workers were Greeks doing the best they could. https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=215713 Report this Post to the Staff
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