Help Identifying Islamic Gold

Jinx86

Odds are this is a sequin from the ottoman empire, but that's about as far as I can get with these.

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Jinx86

ok, so we are no long able to post images from PB in our posts?

Stork

See if this worked. I picked the 'direct link' option. Basically strips out the IMG bracket thingies.

WillieBoyd2

It might be this one:

https://numisbids.com/n.php?p=sale&sid=350&cid=9975
Lot 3492
ISLAMIC COINS. OTTOMAN. Selim I (918-926h), Gold Sultani, Qustantiniyya

Jinx86

Almost identical Reverses however the lower portion of the Obverse is different.

I really need to get better at identifying these. I pulled this a few other pieces out of melt. Too much history and potentially rare coins to melt.

Aegis3

It's certainly Ottoman, and the date is ah 918. There were many mints which issued these, and I can claim no expertise in these.

WillieBoyd2

Here's another like it, same mint, Qustantaniya, almost identical obverse:

https://the-saleroom.com/en-us/auction-catalogues/morton-and-eden-ltd/catalogue-id-srmort10015/lot-d1fbc0cf-59d5-41a5-8f9b-a4b800f122f5

Jinx86

We may have found a match, have to head to work. Will be back at it this afternoon.

enl.numismatics.org/id/3476

WillieBoyd2

They are all the same coin type, number 116, in Petrie, Nuri "Osmanhlarda Madeni Parlalar" [Istanbul, 1968].

Jinx86

Is there an easier way to attribute these other than finding the year and google it?

Id rather not have to ask the forum everytime I pull on from melt.

WillieBoyd2

Who would want to melt one of these coins?

They are worth far more as numismatic items than as bullion.

Jinx86

You would be shocked at what gets melted in this world. Ill be posting some images of a few items i've pulled once they are identified. What is sad is I cannot save all of them.

I'm a watch person and part of my last large melt I had to toss in a Tag Heuer 18K watch case and full bracelet. 1.8 Ounces of gold, I would have saved it if I could have found a movement available to fit the case in time. Could have fitted dial, hands, stem, crown and crystal with a new movement and had a killer watch.

Stork

Yikes! Do you work in a coin store? Can you set stuff aside to see if it can sell for more than melt?

I took some broken jewelry to a local 'we buy gold' place and I made sure the lady (an antique dealer) was pulling coins...she is an antique dealer type and said that she pulled any jewelry or coins to take a closer look before sending on to whatever refiner gig she had going.

Jinx86

We sell quite a bit of jewelry on Ebay. So we do pick the lots I melt for better items that we can flip. Coins do get melted, only after I approve it it. In a typical week I can go through 250 ounces of gold jewelry(99% of it is junk). I melt it with an induction furnace and pin test to get a sample of the whole lot so we know what to pay out.

A pile like this.

Become bars and pin samples like this.