Picked up this coin from a junk bin recently. It's all Arabic, but I've been trying to improve my identification skills. My best guess is it's an Egyptian bronze 1/20th Qirsh. The reverse I believe has 1293, which I assume the starting year of the era, which I think is about 1876. The front has 12, so I guess it's the 12th year of the Reign of Abdul Hamid II. How do the dates work? Do they count up from year 1, so the date would be 1876 + 12 - 1 = 1887? I think Egypt fell out of Ottoman control into British occupation in 1882, so if that is so, I guess they kept issuing coins in the name of the Sultan even after Egypt left the Ottoman control. Any insights would be most welcome!
The year is 1886 but I can't find your coin anywhere. I checked Egypt, Turkey and Hyderabad. I don't know where else to look.
To semi-quote Wikipedia, Egypt was still technically Ottoman until November 5, 1914. They were declared a British protectorate on that date in a reaction to the Ottoman Empire joining the Central Powers. Thus, Ottoman coinage was issued until then. Also, Numista lists your coin here.
Here's a cleaner looking one on Numista: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10923.html (Edit: just realized the previous poster already provided a the same link!) It's in my (very obsolete) Krause guide under Egypt as a 1/20 Qirsh of Abdul Hamid II. I realized now that my approximation for the date is probably a bit off. If the starting year of the reign is year 1 = AH1293 = AD1876, I can't just add the regnal year minus 1 as the Hijri year is about 3% shorter than the Gregorian year. So depending on the how the months work out I guess the 12th year could be 10-11 years later or 1886-1887. I wonder if there's a convenient converter anywhere to get AH or AD years from Ottoman regnal years.
