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 Posted 03/01/2020  3:10 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Endo74 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
This small token was found in the same collection that I recently posted about. I don't think it's a coin, but rather a token and it appears to have been altered (a small hole punched through) to make it into a medallion. There is no reverse side (it's just the mirror image of the obverse viewed from the back side). Has anyone ever seen anything like this?


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 Posted 03/01/2020  5:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oriole to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It looks like belly dancer's costume decoration. Made with a hole to attach to the costume.
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 Posted 03/01/2020  5:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yes I agree with @oriole. This one looks pretty modern. If you use the CCF search function with the keywords IMITATION OTTOMAN ALGERIA you'll see what the older ones look like.
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Have tom agree with the two above posts, to thin to be anything other than a belt or bracelet dangle
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While often called "belly dancer tokens", this is probably not the most common use of these pieces, certainly not in their countries of Origin in western Asia and the Middle East. They are generally used in any situation where once actual coins would have been used for decoration. Brides might wear then in wedding outfits. I have seen them jingling from the tops of the drink dispensers of the ceremonial sherbet-sellers walking around the tourist traps in Istanbul.

These "jewellery imitations" are usually designed to resemble at-first-glance the style of coinage once issued by the Ottoman Empire, back in the 1700s and 1800s. But he writing is usually garbled and unintelligible.
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