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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2541389, member: 10461&quot;]Turkey may not be far off- it kinda-sorta resembles some Ottoman Empire coins, though I don&#039;t see the &quot;<i>toughra</i>&quot; monogram one would expect to see on those.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want my theory, I think it <i>might</i> not be a coin at all, but rather a gold <i>charm</i> which <i>mimics</i> some of those Ottoman/Egyptian/Turkish gold pieces. For all I know, the inscriptions could be pseudo-Arabic gibberish (though admittedly I do not know that for sure).&nbsp; Just based on the style of the thing, it looks like a charm rather than a coin, but again, I could be mistaken.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Also, if it is in fact 24K gold, that speaks more to a charm than a coin, since gold coins were seldom struck in pure gold but were usually alloyed with copper or other metals to make them more durable for commerce.)</p><p><br /></p><p>On my &quot;Holey Gold Hat&quot; of avatar fame, I had both a real Ottoman Turkish gold <i>zehri mahbub</i> and a lookalike charm.</p><p><br /></p><p>These charms were (and probably still are) often holed and used on belly dancer costumes and other garments like that. </p><p><br /></p><p>So... good news and bad news.&nbsp; Bad news being, you might not have a coin at all.&nbsp; Good news being, hey... gold is gold, and good to have in any form, right? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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