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Message:: [QUOTE="Robidoux Pass, post: 3496816, member: 96691"]The item quoted is not actually a "letter" but is a diacritic mark.  Diacritic marks are meant to show things such as missing vowels or consonant length, etc.  They are usually not shown in everyday writing but are shown in the Quran.  In this particular case, I think it is to indicate that the letter below is a "sh" sound rather than an "s" sound.  Other nearby diacritic marks on the coin are what looks like a sideways "v" to the right and above this character and what looks like a Latin "w" below and to the left. And technically, the language is Turkish, which at that time used the same alphabet as Arabic.  Under the instigation of Mustafa Kamal (Attaturk) to make the country more Western, the alphabet was replaced by a Latin based alphabet in 1928 and is how Turkish is written today on modern Turkish coins. [USER=100584]@Ag76[/USER], it is a most interesting coin and a quite worthwhile find.  Thanks for sharing it with us.  Without being able to examine the coin in hand, I would conjecture that all indications so far say that it is authentic.[/QUOTE]