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Hi coin community! I don't have much info on this coin. It was given to my grandmother by her mother and then passed to me. She doesn't know the language or how her mother had it in her possession. What I do know is that my grandmother and great grandmother are from a small village in Bulgaria called Dagonovo on the southwest part of the country.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
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Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Yes indeed, welcome to the CCF!
The dates visible on your coin are Anno Hejira (AH, Islamic date) 1223 (accession year, on the bottom of the first photo) and regnal year 30 (at the top of the first photo). This is how Hondo Boguss correctly dated your coin to AD 1837 using the table on the Numista page.
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Very nice. Tons of sentimental value there. John1 |
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This numista page seems interesting. It says that the coin weighs 1.6g and is made of gold with no fineness information. It also says that it is worth USD$99.33 in bullion value. But the only entry for value in XF grade is $9.00. Something doesn't make sense here.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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But the only entry for value in XF grade is $9.00. Something doesn't make sense here. The value you cite is an auction result for a gilded imitation of this coin. Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Thanks for the explanation @HB.  Seems odd that a reproduction of a coin would be put up as a representative sale for the issuance. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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