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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 885245, member: 4703&quot;]Dates and legends, especially in unfamiliar scripts are SO much easier to read in proper orientation.&nbsp; After I printed your images and turned the paper 90º to the right, the 1303AH (1886CE) to the left of the bust and the 1307AH (1890CE) below the bust became legible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those dates put your Persian (now Iranian) coin in the reign of Nasi al-Din Shah, and the lion with a sword reverse is common to quite a few coins of that period.&nbsp; However, I have not found the right-facing bust in my 3rd Ed. 19th Century Standard Catalog of World Coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>What are the dimensions, and apparent metallic composition?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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