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YQQYQQ Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭✭✭
Hopefully some of you can help and identify these items.
I have no idea what they are, where these are, originate, coins? Medals? Souvenirs?
Do they have a value?
These were part of a collection I obtained a couple of days ago.
Coin C I found on Google on a Belgian site. Unfortunately I do not speak French and there was no translation available.
Any help will be much appreciated
Thank you all

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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can't readily deal with Arabic script.
    One side of the token is Latin, not French, but makes no sense, offhand.

    Joannes = John
    Ille = he or it
    Coquus = cook
    Sui = His (?)
    Fillique = and Son (?)

    Without knowing more, I think a possible translation would be: This is from John Cook and Son.
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  • Easiest one first.

    E is a Zanzibar 1882 1 Pysa KM#1 I thinkimage

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  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,105 ✭✭✭✭✭
    YQQ, regarding C; I found this info at the

    Fitzwilliam Museum



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    edit to add this information contained in a thread

    on the worldofcoins.eu site

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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Paul Withers! Haven't seen that name in a while.
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  • MrBreezeMrBreeze Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭
    Here are my thoughts.

    Coin A
    I have something similar and it seems to be some sort of copy of an 1800's budju from Algeria-Algiers. KM#68 is the closest thing I could get, design-wise, but it is silver and probably larger.

    Tunisia and Libya also have some similar designs.

    Coin B Turkey 1800s KM#645, Cedid Mahmudiye gold coin

    Coin D Turkey 1800s KM #643 1/4 Cedid Mahmudiye gold coin

    Coin F Turkey 1800s 1223/26 100 Par KM#598







  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A, B, and D are thin light imitation coins made for "belly dancer" costumes.

    The writing on them is usually meaningless.

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  • YQQYQQ Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thank you all for your input..
    Belly dancing ha??? could be fun to watch...
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Muygrandeoso beat me to it on the Zanzibar.

    I knew "C" was based on a Venetian zecchino design but it looks like Swampboy nailed down much more detailed information on that.

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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "C" is probably also a "belly dancer" costume coin as it is very thin.

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    Belly Dancer in "From Russia With Love"

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