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Newbie Inherited My Parents Collection (But Enjoying The History) Coin I Can't Pin Down?

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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.
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 Posted 12/05/2023  08:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fplagge to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Cannot find identical match, but definitely Ottoman Empire.
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srs2000,
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 Posted 12/05/2023  2:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
to CCF!

- almost certainly from the Ottoman Empire. The coin looks golden in the pictures - is that its actual color?
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 Posted 12/05/2023  3:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add srs2000 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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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The Ottoman empire covered much of today's Middle East, North Africa, Arabian Peninsula and Southeat Europe untile World War I.

This is a near match: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces98939.html
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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.
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 Posted 12/07/2023  06:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add srs2000 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Does the top image contain a Camel ? looks like one ?
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 Posted 12/07/2023  07:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
- 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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 Posted 12/09/2023  6:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add srs2000 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks all for your help with this one, so are the two coins I have really from 1808 ? wow
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