Help to identify a Gold coin

Size: about: 20-21 mm
Weight: about 2.4 gm

 

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What is that? I'm stumped.

 

Looks to me like a Hyderabadi gold.....I'm not sure though.
The obverse insignia looks exactly like that of the Hyderabadi coins.

 

Its a Zeri Mahbub gold coin from Egypt (Ottoman Empire), dated AH 1143, under the reign of Mahmud I.

 

:headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang:
Me and my stupid guesses

 

How much did you pay for it.

 

It looks like this (what Acanthite said):

http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=592576&AucID=431&Lot=1358

The price it sold for is there too but it appears to be in a little better condition so you can expect yours to be worth a little less.

Ribbit

 

Would any TPG's slab one of these. Or dip one...
There is green gunk on it...

 

Gold will develop "green gunk" on it and I believe it's caused from the copper content but not sure. Several of my tiny California Gold Tokens had a little on them and I just dipped them in a capful of Tarn-X and it disappeared, with no traces of it left. hya:

Ribbit

 

Thank you all

Thank you for your help

 

well if you are calling yourself stupid i hAVE no problems with that

BUT the guess was quite intelligent. The hyderabadi coins were modelled after the ottoman and turkey coins