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guest1080 New Member Iran 2 Posts	Posted 05/12/2025 12:40 pm Hi guys, I have a coin that seems ancient, but I know nothing about coins. What do you guys think about this? Report this Post to the Staff

Keith67 Pillar of the Community United States 6525 Posts	Posted 05/12/2025 1:17 pm What does the other side look like? Report this Post to the Staff
guest1080 New Member Iran 2 Posts	Posted 05/12/2025 1:25 pm Report this Post to the Staff
tdziemia Pillar of the Community United States 7935 Posts	Posted 05/12/2025 2:30 pm What is the size? The first photo looks like the design of a coin (something like a cross or a monogram in the center, and lettering around). However the "lettering" though largely missing, just looks like V V V. Not enough remaining detail to say... Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 187862 Posts	Posted 05/12/2025 2:32 pm to the Community! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
jecz79 Pillar of the Community Portugal 655 Posts	Posted 05/14/2025 8:27 pm Can you say where it was found? It it was european or from around the Mediterranean I would compare with coins of the medieval period. Because of what looks like letters with broad, straight strokes around. If it was V V V it could be from those centuries. But it it was found in Iran I can not make any guess. Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34397 Posts	Posted 05/14/2025 8:58 pm Knowing the weight could be useful too. The more info that you can provide, the more likely we can help you. Also, welcome to CCF! "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 Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5172 Posts	Posted 05/16/2025 4:45 pm If found in Iran, I suspect it's a Persian (Iranian or Afghan) civic copper, ca. 18th-19th century. There's a lot of types of those, usually found badly worn, and I'm not sure if the photos here are enough to determine which specific type it is. EDIT: the VVV design is likely (part of) a crude sun face. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16810 Posts	Posted 05/17/2025 03:58 am Quote: EDIT: the VVV design is likely (part of) a crude sun face. I couldn't get past the VVV being some kind of language, but now I see that it is indeed part of a sunface design, and what I htoguht was a facing portrait is actually the sun's nose. Similar to the one in this old thread: Technically "Afghanistan", as it's from Herat; I don;t know the series well enough to say if all the sunface-coins are from Herat. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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