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Cacoinguy
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Can anyone provide information on this coin? Walked in to shop this morning.
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Cacoinguy
Posts: 279 ✭✭✭
Cacoinguy
Posts: 279 ✭✭✭
Cacoinguy
Posts: 279 ✭✭✭
Cacoinguy
Posts: 279 ✭✭✭
Can anyone provide information on this coin? Walked in to shop this morning.
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Ottoman Turkey gold coin of Sultan Mahmud II, accession year AH 1223, regnal year 28.
Coin date is AH 1251 (AD 1835-36)
It might be a cedad but we would need the diameter and weight to identify it further.
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Wow awesome appreciate it... when weighed it was either 1.2 or 1.4 grams. Does that narrow it down
The coin is probably a cedid (1.6gm) but has lost weight due to wear and the hole.
With these types of coins one needs the diameter and weight to identify the denomination.
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You should also be aware that over the past 150 years, these coins, with this specific date (1223//28) were very heavily reproduced, for jewellery purposes. Some of the replicas are really, really bad and are not truly meant to deceive either a gold buyer nor a coin collector. Others are much more accurate renditions. Most of the copies are not actually gold.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD.
A jeweler might be able to tell if it is gold.
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Thanks for your help guys