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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PatrickJered, post: 3077059, member: 95233&quot;]Gosh, how amazing. Thank you all so much for sharing your incredible knowledge. I&#039;ll attempt to take a better picture of the reverse side tomorrow. My camera really isn&#039;t up to doing such close-ups, but I&#039;ll try. The coin is really quite small, about 1.2 cm. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea how my dad came to possess it. He always kept it in a box of old coins - not ancient ones I&#039;m afraid - just old English pennies and things. As somebody above mentioned, actually I wasn&#039;t thinking of selling it. It&#039;s intrigued me since I was a kid. My dad thought it was a Roman coin. Now I wish I&#039;d asked him where he got it. He didn&#039;t really travel widely, but when he was young, in the 1950s, he spent a couple of years living in Mogadishu, Somalia, and he talked of visiting places like Aden and Port Said. I wonder if he picked it up in Africa or the Middle East. </p><p><br /></p><p>Rather than selling it, I was wondering if it was worth getting the pin fixed (also gold, I&#039;m afraid). Now I&#039;ll look into that. If it really is old, I guess that&#039;s a specialist job. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll try to post a better image of the back tomorrow. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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