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Unidentified Coin, Poor Condition, Help (Id: Electrical Box Knock Out)

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 Posted 12/07/2020  3:37 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add navycapt1635 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
All,

This coin was in an envelope marked by my great uncle as "possible arabic or near eastern."

I located a coin with similar markings here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/485938...-old-antique

Obviously in poor condition--just curious. Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Bill
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 Posted 12/07/2020  4:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add navycapt1635 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
FYI,

The coin is 7/8" in diameter and 1/16" thick. It weighs 5.8 grams.

Tks.

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To me this looks like it's too round to be hand-struck, more likely machine-struck, and therefore fairly modern (19th or 20th century). The first photo may reveal some kind of plating, so it's probably not solid silver, if silver at all. Personally I don't see similarities to Afghan silver rupees. The gouges look like damage to me, rather than the original design, and the item may be too far gone for ID. However, some of the experts on this site have made amazing IDs of very worn coins, so anything is possible. For diameter we use mm, so seven-eighths of an inch corresponds to about 22 mm. Good luck to you!
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@bill, can you please check to see if this piece is attracted to a magnet? If so, then I think that I know what it is.
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Wow Spence, you are truly talented!
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Not talented but rather just have seen a lot. That looks a whole lot like a knock-out from an electrical box.
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Thanks all. Spence, yes it has a strong attraction to a magnet.

Best,

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Ok good to know. I'll move this thread over to the tokens and exonumia section of CCF as that is the catch-all for these sorts of things. By the way, I featured a similar piece in the thread "things that look like coins but aren't" here:

http://goccf.com/t/267806#2263440

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Spence,

Thanks for the insight.

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About 15+ years ago I had a collector friend in St. Peterberg Russia and when I tried sending him coins the postal people or customs would steal the coin and just to be mean they would reseal the the package including the empty 2x2 and deliver the package. So I sent him one of these knockouts after putting it in a 2x2 describing it as the rare unfinished coin planchet mint error that my friend had asked for. He never got that package either. I just enjoyed the fun thought that somewhere over there some crooked fool was wasting time trying to verify my rarity.
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