Five Arabic Coins, Help With ID Please?!

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Zaslit New Member United Kingdom 7 Posts	Posted 03/29/2011 5:32 pm Hello! I have inherited these amongst many others from a grandparent, some I have been able (with great help from this forum!) to identify as Tunisian and Iranian but these five I am struggling with....two seem to have been used as pendants of some sort at some point? Any help very much appreciated! Hopefully the images should load alternately for the front and back of each coin Report this Post to the Staff

willieboyd2 Pillar of the Community United States 525 Posts	Posted 03/29/2011 8:06 pm #1, #3 are Turkish #2 may be a belly dancer token #4 is Gwalior (India) around AD 1900 #5 is Bengal (India) around AD 1800 :) https://www.brianrxm.com The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin Coins in Movies Coins on Television Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16809 Posts	Posted 03/29/2011 11:35 pm Quote: #2 may be a belly dancer token Agreed. What do we mean by that? It's a replica of an Algerian silver coin, made in brass for jewellery purposes. To see several similar items posted here on the forum in the past, do a forum search for "imitation Ottoman Algerian". This one is a good match for yours. 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
Bacchus2 Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2869 Posts	Posted 03/30/2011 03:19 am Number three is a token that was issued privately for use in the early 20th century Istanbul. Similar tokens of value 20 para were used as payment for Galata bridge crossings, I assume this one with a value of 5 (I have one as well so I think they are quite common) was used for something similar. My Papal States coin collection: https://diadumenian.com/Papal%20Sta...0States.html Medieval coins collection: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...0Europe.html Indian Rupee Collection: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...0Rupees.html Minor world Silver: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...20coins.html Report this Post to the Staff
Zaslit New Member United Kingdom 7 Posts	Posted 03/30/2011 06:20 am That's awesome thank you everyone! the wealth of knowledge on this site is very impressive Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16809 Posts	Posted 03/30/2011 08:45 am #1 appears to be a billon (extremely debased silver) Turkish 10 or 20 para - 10 para, assuming it's to the same scale as #3. Listed in the catalogue as KM# 652. The date is 1255/Year 4, or 1842 AD. Unfortunately, it has suffered from being made into a jewellery-piece. People in the Middle East that could afford to use real coins like this, did so. People that couldn't afford real coins made such jewellery out of fake coins, like #2. #3 is not a token, but an ordinary circulation Turkish 5 para coin dated 1293/Year 28, KM# 743. It's also made of billon. The date converts to 1902 AD. #4 is indeed form the Indian state of Gwalior, a half-pice dated 1958 in the Vikramasamvat calendar (= 1901 AD). KM# 164. #5 is from the East India Company's Bengal Presidency, which was in eastern India, centred on what is now Bangladesh and the city of Kolkata (Calcutta). This particular coin is a 1 pice, listed as KM# 57. Unfortunately, the Company didn't bother putting accurate dates on many of its coins. This coin has a date-number of "37" on it, but this number doesn't seem to correlate with any actual calendar date. They were struck over several years as the Company needed them, towards the end of Company rule, in the 1830s and 1840s. And I should add, the pics for #4 and #5 are upside down. 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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