My First Gold & 19th Century Coin!

FelixtheCat said:

Part 1: Let me start off with that this find was totally and completely unexpected. I went to hunt at popular upscale park located in the City <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on">Miami</st1:City>. This park gets a lot of people traffic, especially on the weekends. I had done it last year and collected a nice amount of clad. I went to do what I usually do which is the sanded areas. This park has a large sanded volleyball court and a fitness track that has very small sanded exercise areas with different apparatus in them as you go along the track. I started on the volleyball court with not too much clad but I did find the silver bangle bracelet. I then decided to head for the exercise areas which I knew would be better for the clad. Towards the end of my hunt, I picked up a gold colored coin with a bunch of Arabic script on it. I didn’t think much of it and I put it away in the pouch thinking that it was a modern gold colored coin and nothing more. I then finished my 2 hours of hunting with a respectable $3.52 in clad and the silver bracelet that I was excited about. <O</O
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Part 2: After going home and spending some time looking at the internet for “modern Arab and Israeli coins, I could not find anything that it was even close to. I figured it was time to get professional help so I posted pics of the gold colored coin on the "Help To Id My Finds” section of this forum. I was doubtful too many people would get to see it as we were just coming back from the notorious hack. Then some of the fine folks on this forum shed some light on my mystery find. One posted what the coin said "In the name of Allah the most merciful and the most compassionate" in addition to a date of 1293 which a couple of other members said was really 1876 after the coin was converted from its Arabic date. Finally, member FXDiz was first to correctly identify the coin as an Ottoman Turkey 100 Kurus Gold Coin! Wow! An honest to God real gold coin. I was amazed and speechless. In order to make sure that the coin was authentic, I took it to school to weigh it on a digital scale and it weighed in at what it should have 7.20 grams. I still have a friend that’s a rare coin dealer who is going to look at it, but at this point I am almost 100% sure that it’s real.

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Part 3: Never in my wildest dreams would I ever have believed to have found a gold coin, much less one from the 19<SUP>th</SUP> century, and especially in a sanded exercise area of a relatively modern park. I thank those members that looked at the post and helped to identify it. So I now I have found my first gold coin and my first 19th century one also (But still no Merc as of yet!). The moral of this story is that you never really know what is going to come out of the ground – EVER! <O</O

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Rudy said:

12 years later, this thread comes back to life.

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slider66 said:

Felix I found the same coin. Isn't that wild? In the water about two years ago.

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