Big Oriental Silver Coun in Central Europe
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Looks middle east to this untrained eye
A good find. Silver is great in any form....
A good find. Silver is great in any form....
Jodo_Kast501
Senior Member
I think I've identified your coin. The date is 1115 Anno Hegira, which would be 1703 in the western (Gregorian calendar). It's an Ottoman zolota and it looks like 1703 was the first year they were minted.
The Ottomans controlled a lot of Eastern Europe from the Middle Ages into the 1800s, so I think it's more likely that the coin made its way to Central Europe from trading and commerce in Ottoman-controlled areas further to the south and east.
Great find!
The Ottomans controlled a lot of Eastern Europe from the Middle Ages into the 1800s, so I think it's more likely that the coin made its way to Central Europe from trading and commerce in Ottoman-controlled areas further to the south and east.
Great find!
Jodo_Kast501
Senior Member
Here's an example on a coin website.
BrahmanShaman
Full Member
Excellent ID on the coin... and terrific find! Congrats!
Vermonster
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Beauty of a coin! Since there was fighting in north Africa, and all around the Mediterranean during WW2, that would make sense that it was a souveniere or spoil of war, so to speak.
Awesome find!
Awesome find!
bobac
Elite Member
Great old coin
So......What's the story? You found it with a detector? What kind of machine? What kind of site? How deep?
I'm snowed in for months so I need to live through other folks s finds.......
I wish I could see some other forms of scale next to it....
It looks huge.......
That's an amazing huge old coin!!!
So......What's the story? You found it with a detector? What kind of machine? What kind of site? How deep?
I'm snowed in for months so I need to live through other folks s finds.......
I wish I could see some other forms of scale next to it....
It looks huge.......
HERMSDORF
New Member
Thank you very much Gentlemen for the kind answers, especially @Jodo_Kast501 who identified that coin for me, thank you again, I really appreciate that!
@bobac: It was a typical hunt for WWII artifacts with my Fisher CZ5 some Years ago, Coin was not very deep, approximately 4", it was that loud a clear signal old CZ´s doing on those targets. No other Coins around unfortunately, a single find...
ANDY
@bobac: It was a typical hunt for WWII artifacts with my Fisher CZ5 some Years ago, Coin was not very deep, approximately 4", it was that loud a clear signal old CZ´s doing on those targets. No other Coins around unfortunately, a single find...
ANDY
