Need some help with this one.
This late Ottoman Empire coin is one I am having trouble with. Not sure it is a coin, maybe a token of some kind. Date is questionable according to what I could find in Krause. I appreciate the help and learning experience. Dave


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It looks similar to a Turkish Kurush (the date numbering in particular), but that’s not exactly what it is.
Ottoman/Turkiye definitely seems right.
I would suspect token/jeweler's copy. The mintname just looks like a crude simplification of Constantinople (or really the Arabic equivalent).
Ed. S.
(EJS)
I concur; it's a "jewellery imitation" of an 18th century Ottoman gold coin. They usually come holed, but this one isn't. Perhaps it was mounted, at that notch at 4 o'clock on the second pic. There were several different gold coin designs during the reign of this Sultan; I believe this item is attempting to imitate one of these: https://en.numista.com/34889
You'd have to get it tested; these jewellery replicas usually aren't actually made of gold.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.
Thank all of you very much. Dave