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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3782453, member: 74834"]Your 'other side' of the coin is upside down. It should be like this: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1010204[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The two 'pincer' signs at the beginning and end of the first horizontal line are a sure sign we are dealing with the obverse of a medieval Islamic coin: it's the text of the Kalima. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can find the date at 1-3 o'clock in this picture. I think it ends with 100 (<i>mi'at</i>, looking like OIO) and before that is [d or 9 = <i>and</i>] 1, but I may be wrong. The style suggests an Umayyad gold coin, and the date 101 would fit with that, it's 720 AD. </p><p><br /></p><p>The weight is pretty important, and I think you should need an electronic scale that goes into the .01-s. But 4.3 grams looks o.k. </p><p>However, to decide about the style... that's for experts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3782453, member: 74834"]Your 'other side' of the coin is upside down. It should be like this: [ATTACH=full]1010204[/ATTACH] The two 'pincer' signs at the beginning and end of the first horizontal line are a sure sign we are dealing with the obverse of a medieval Islamic coin: it's the text of the Kalima. You can find the date at 1-3 o'clock in this picture. I think it ends with 100 ([I]mi'at[/I], looking like OIO) and before that is [d or 9 = [I]and[/I]] 1, but I may be wrong. The style suggests an Umayyad gold coin, and the date 101 would fit with that, it's 720 AD. The weight is pretty important, and I think you should need an electronic scale that goes into the .01-s. But 4.3 grams looks o.k. However, to decide about the style... that's for experts.[/QUOTE]
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