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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;acanthite, post: 405776, member: 6647&quot;]Nice coins, and they can be a challenge to attribute.&nbsp; Aleppo (Haleb) has turned out some very interesting fals and dirhams, especially during the Artuqid and Zengid dynasties, many are quite artistic with plenty of unusual iconography.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your Ottoman coin was minted in Constantinople, and the year AH 1223 visible at the bottom of the reverse is the ascension year of Mahmud II.&nbsp; I can&#039;t quite see the actual year the coin was minted (probably at the top of the revserve).&nbsp; It would be somewhere between AH 1223 and AH 1255, and is represented by a number that must be added to 1223 to get the date struck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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