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Iran (Persia) - Coin Or Token?

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Here is an small coin (probably brass). I am not sure, if it is real coin, or ony any token.

Thank you in advance.

Iran-Persia---Coin-Or-Token?
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 Posted 07/27/2011  10:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It's not a coin. The reverse script is extremely stylized, garbled to the point of being untranslatable. Given the French language on the obverse, I would assume it's a game token; I have seen several similar tokens naming other (European) monarchs in "wrong" languages (such as the French emperor, in English, or the Russian Tsar, in German), used as card game counters.

Those other tokens depict rulers who reigned in the late 1800s (such as Napoleon III of France) but I'm unable to identify the specific Shah depicted here; I would have presumed it's one of the ones from the mid-1800s to early 1900s, most likely Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, who was the first Iranian monarch to visit Europe. However, I can't make his name (or any other Qajar Shah's name from that time period) fit the initials given, which seem to be "M.I.".
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 Posted 07/28/2011  01:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gandy_II to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hi Sap, it is possible, this "coin" may be any game token. Thanks!!
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