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New Member
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Hello all, my first post, I'm a newbie like many before I've inherited my parents collection and am enjoying the history trail. Coin's I can't pin down please, any advise? They are very small approx 15mm dia and very light weight, I have two of them. *** Moved by Staff moved to a more appropriate forum. ****** Edited by Staff to crop/rotate/resize images. In the future, Please crop, resize, and correctly orient images before uploading. ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Cannot find identical match, but definitely Ottoman Empire.
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Moderator
 United States
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srs2000, 
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 to the CCF!
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 United States
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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 to CCF!  - almost certainly from the Ottoman Empire. The coin looks golden in the pictures - is that its actual color?
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New Member
 United Kingdom
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Thank you all for your welcome and reply's, I have no clue what "Ottoman" means do they have a lot of history ? and yes "january1may" they do look golden in colour.
I've only looked at a small sample of the coins but of the ones I can make out they are from all over the world, inc Indonisien, UAE, Austria, Sweden, Iran, Spain, Luxembourg etc the list goes on.
Guessing I have a lot to learn about coins but its all very interesteing stuff.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Moderator
 United States
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@srs, first welcome to CCF. Second, our member @sap will be around at some point to weigh in, but the newness of design and date of AH 1223 lead me to conclude that this isn't a gold Ottoman coin, but rather a gilt imitation used for weddings or jewelry purposes. Often they are holed, but not always.
"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
 United Kingdom
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Does the top image contain a Camel ? looks like one ?
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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 - that definitely looks like a match! I was wondering whether the oval with inscription at 11h could be a maker's mark, but somehow I hadn't noticed the camel 
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New Member
 United Kingdom
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Thanks all for your help with this one, so are the two coins I have really from 1808 ? wow
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