Need Help Identifiing Old Coins

Hello,
I recently attended a bank auction where the contents of old unpaid security boxes were made available to the public. I ended up with several lots of old coins. Although I am not a collector, I was able to use coin guides to ID most of them (IE. Large cents, flying eagle cents, 3 cent silver, 3 cent nickel, Morgan dollars etc....). However, there are some that I could not ID. I could send pics. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
AC

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How about this one?

 

this pic may be better

Maybe this will help

 

It is Arabic, dated 1293AH at the bottom, which is January 28, 1876 through January 16, 1877. The number "27" is at the top, but with literally dozens of possible countries, a look at the other side might help in narrowing it down. The other Arabic writing may include a country or mint name, but I can't read Arabic.

 

Thanks for the info. I will try to get a pic of the other side

 

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FYI- I think I found a pic of it online. I belive it is turkish

 

Not quite. It's an Ottoman Empire coin from the period when the Turks ruled a huge area in Asia Minor and North Africa, and a perfect example of why pictures of both sides of a coin are needed for identification. Coins of the Ottoman Empire commonly had a pattern known as the "toughra", is Turkey, where they are cataloged. Ottoman coins were usually dated with both the years of the Sultan's accession and the specific year of his reign that the coin was minted - 1293AH and 27 in this case, which dates the coin to 1320AH, roughly equivalent to 1901 of the common era.

Unfortunately many of the Krause pictures of Sultan Abdul Hamid II's coins are of poor quality. Except for the number of stars yours resembles both the 1 Kurush (KM#735, 15mm, 1.2027g of .8300 silver, 9,945,000 mintage at Qustaniniyah in modern-day Algiers) and the 2 Kurush (KM#736, 17mm, 2.4055g of .8300 silver, 4,699,000 also minted at Qustaniniyah). Both of those have 12 stars in the design.

The number of stars may be a variety, as the only other coins listed for 1293AH/27 are gold, and don't have that reverse design.

In Extra Fine grade, which yours may be, the 1 Kurush catalogs at $5 and the 2 Kurush is listed at $7.

 

Hey satootoka,

Let me thank you for being a part of this forum. Your knowledge and ability our well appreciated.

 

Many Thanks

Thank You Very for the info.

 

the writing is in arabic means in english "Struck in Egypt"

 

And here, I always thought that Qustaniniyah was Constantinople.

Michael
"Why did Constantinople get the works?"