Chinese? No? About the size of a silver dollar...

braddick

Yet harshly cleaned.
Picked it up for a bit over silver off a bid board.
Any good?

JamminJ

Ethiopia, good buy.

satootoko

Lions carrying a banner topped with a coptic cross adorn only Ethiopian coins

This one is KM#5 (lion's left foreleg raised), 1 Birr, 28.075g .8350 silver (ASW .7537 oz.)

20,000 minted with EE date 1887A (1894), 200 with EE date 1888A (1896), and 418,000 with EE date 1889A (1897).

Values from $85-100 XF and $250-325 Unc in the 2001 3rd Ed. 19th Century Krause are probably on the low side.

Super buy!

josemartins

Yes, probably Chinese, too many wrong details...


Jose

TwoKopeiki

Is it suppose to be this one?

Image courtesy of CoinArchives, UBS Sale #61

newsman

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I agree. It's a fake. The portrait is wrong -- look at the beard details compared to the real one twokopeiki posted, and the overall lack of sharpness.

BTW, the inscription says 1/8 birr, which should be between a dime and a quarter in size. If it's bigger, it's definitely a fake.