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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3374677, member: 84744&quot;]Geez, I see one sold a couple years ago at CNG for $1000! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For me, it was Runciman&#039;s <i>The Fall of Constantinople</i>.&nbsp; Great book!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, the Arabic script is really tough.&nbsp; I learn a bit (with the help of Richard Plant&#039;s <i>Arabic Coins and how to read them</i>) and then promptly forget it all!&nbsp; The best resource, with images, is zeno.ru.&nbsp; It takes some time, but it&#039;s usually possible to identify coins using the site.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure your first one is Mehmet II, Edirne mint (= Adrianople), dated 865 AH.&nbsp; The second one is also Mehmet II, probably Edirne mint but 10 years earlier, just as he was planning the attack on Constantinople... I&#039;m not sure about that one, though.&nbsp; Have a browse <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=1400" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=1400" rel="nofollow">here</a> and you will probably find a match!&nbsp; The entire Ottoman index is here: <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=580" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=580" rel="nofollow">https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=580</a> .[/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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