Strange Coin/Token | Imitation Ottoman Tunisia

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katnip New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 07/10/2011 10:17 pm Hi, I would love some help in identifying what this is, please. It was found in SC by a friend. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks so much! Identified - moved to World Coins forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21786 Posts	Posted 07/11/2011 03:29 am Wild guess: From Central Asia. At least that is a start. Report this Post to the Staff
Bacchus2 Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2869 Posts	Posted 07/11/2011 04:56 am I think this is another of those jewelry pieces you see on arabic style costumes. I'll bet it's very thin and the two holes indicate that it was used in this fashion. 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
Sap Moderator Australia 16809 Posts	Posted 07/11/2011 05:47 am Sorry, but this is not a real coin. It's another variant on the "imitation Ottoman gold coin", made for jewllery purposes. The coin this one is copied from is the base-silver 8 kharub from Tunisia province, early 1800s. NGC example of a genuine coin. For some reason, the folks that made these jewellery replicas sometimes chose to use silver coins from North Africa (Tunisia and Algeria) as the models for their brassy-gold items. 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
katnip New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 07/11/2011 12:32 pm Thanks so much for the replies! I figured it was a jewelry piece, but we had never seen anything like it before around here and could not even guess at what it was. Sap, thank you so much for the link! Your help was greatly appreciated. Kat Report this Post to the Staff
EgCollector Pillar of the Community Egypt 3470 Posts	Posted 07/12/2011 11:42 am to CC forum Report this Post to the Staff
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