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Pillar of the Community
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This was in a bunch of coins that my grandmother gave me but I have no idea what it is. Can someone please help?   Thanks, Ken |
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This is a fantasy copy of a Ottoman coin. The fantasy date gives it away: AH2221 as accession date of the reigning monarch and 87 as his regnal year.
It is probably a so-called belly dancers token. These were fantasy tokens struck to ornate for instance the costumes of belly dancers. Those tokens were designed in a way they looked as Ottoman coins.
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Agreed--that could also explain the hole. Some (maybe newer ones?) are so thin as to be uniface.
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Australia
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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Indeed: 6661 instead of 2221.
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Australia
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The gold coin it was copied from was originally dated 1223, Year 27. Example on CGB.fr. The original coins were very thin, and often holed for use as jewellery; the item posted above is a relatively rare unholed example. And on this copy, it's not just the date-numerals that are backwards. The entire reverse design has been mirror-imaged. Curiously, the toughra on the obverse is the right way around. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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the item posted above is a relatively rare unholed example. @sap, looks like it was holed and then filled, right? "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Australia
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I meant the CGB example.
For the OP's replica, I think it's holed (as these replicas almost always are), just not showing the hole well due to being in a 2x2.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
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I can't figure out if it is a hole since it does not appear to go thru the item or just the side with the date was attached to something at some point in time.
I did not think it was a real coin.
Thanks for the help.
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