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New Member
Morocco
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Hello Everyone, This's your new friend from Morocco, I need your help guys to identify this coin or token, all what I know it's from Islamic era in malaga Al-andalus...thank you  |
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Moderator
 United States
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@jl, first welcome to CCF. Second, I've split your post off from the previous one so that we can give this the proper amount of attention.
"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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New Member
 Morocco
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Edited by Numisma
04/03/2021 6:40 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Malaga is located in Southern Spain, in the Province of Andalusia, an area previously occupied centuries ago by the Islamic Moors, hence the bilingual scripts on opposite sides.
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New Member
Morocco
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Thanks guys for effort, is there any reference to this coin in numista or ucoin?!
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Moderator
United States
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@JL, sorry but this isn't a coin. Rather it seems to be a game piece (pawn from a chess set).
"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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New Member
Morocco
5 Posts |
I saw that chess set too when searching that where I took the image , but it's not possible, how can a piece of metal writthen on '' Dirham '' which was and still a famous currency in the islamic countries, nd it's even my official currency here in Morocco, can be just a pawn for a chess set, I mean it doesn't make any sense, in fact you can't play with any thing has the name of Allah on it, like this piece...it's very confusing
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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An explanation could be that the chess set was made for use in Spain, or other non-Islamic countries for the reason you mention.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 From the link, it appears to have been made in Spain. The chess/checkers set is Muslim Spain-themed, and the checkers are modeled after coins from that period. |
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New Member
Morocco
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Thank you guys for effort.
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Moderator
United States
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