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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2810676, member: 10461&quot;]Thank you!&nbsp; I was too lazy to squint-the-squigglies and do the headscratching.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would have come up with it <i>eventually</i>, but for me, it would&#039;ve been a laborious process.</p><p><br /></p><p>So... Egypt after all! </p><p><br /></p><p>And- [USER=9270]@kanga[/USER] - as I was suspecting but did not say earlier, your &quot;checkmark&quot; symbol there is actually the Arabic &quot;2&quot;, not a &quot;1&quot;.&nbsp; their 1 looks more like the &quot;1&quot; numeral we&#039;re used to seeing, though in a more calligraphic, brushstroke kind of style.&nbsp; I <i>thought</i> that looked like a &quot;2&quot;, but did not say anything because that confused me, since I could not recall any denominations that began with a &quot;2&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>It being a 2/10-qirsh, as helpfully linked to by [USER=83778]@Muzyck[/USER], explains that.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/egypt-2-10-qirsh-km-290-1293-10-1293-35-cuid-1043774-duid-1240841" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/egypt-2-10-qirsh-km-290-1293-10-1293-35-cuid-1043774-duid-1240841" rel="nofollow">Here is the NGC/Krause listing.</a>&nbsp; Yours should be the 1293 AH struck in the 33rd regnal year (&quot;1293/33&quot; as rendered in the catalog.)&nbsp; They mention an &quot;H&quot;, which I assume is a mintmark.&nbsp; Your pictures are too small for me to make that out, but I&#039;m thinking that would almost certainly have to be the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Mint" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Mint" rel="nofollow">Heaton mint</a> in Birmingham, England, which struck a lot of world coins under contract for foreign governments.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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