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Two Coinstar grabs

CoffinCat

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I haven't posted much lately, but I still read many of the posts. I saw someone busily dumping coins into the coinstar as I entered the store, so I made way by the machine after I checked out. I didn't look through the coins, I just slipped them into my pocket and strolled out.

I stopped by a second store and picked up a few more coins from the coinstar tray. When I got home, I examined my haul and found I had :

2 - 2 euro cent from Italy
1 - 2 euro cent from Austria
1 - 1 euro cent from Austria
1 - British one penny
1 - 1 cent from Canada
1 - 10 won from South Korea
1 - 1964 US nickle
1 - 1961 US dime
1 - US Bicentennial Half Dollar
1 - 2009 US penny ( the back has Lincoln sitting on a log. 1 of 4 different )
1 - Marta Token ( light rail transit in Atlanta )
1 - funky coin I can't identify, but looks real old.

I don't know where these folks got these coins or why they tossed them into the coinstar, but they are in my collection now.
 

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The unidentified coin looks Islamic to me. Possibly as early as the Ayyubids. The Umayyads and the Abbasids used Kufic script, while the more modern (but not quite modern) Nashk script during the Ayyubid time period.

If I'm interpreting the picture wrong (it isn't the sharpest in the world, and the coin is in a lower grade), maybe the script is Kufic. In any case, my best guess is earlier than 1300 AD.

-- Tom
 
Thanks for that information Tom. I'll start my research in that direction to see what comes up. I've added better pictures.
 

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Congrats on the silver and other cool finds! :woot:

Back in February I found one of those Italian 2-Cent Euros CRHing through Pennies. :D
 
With that better picture, I think this is a coin of one of the Mamluk (slave-king) kingdoms. Most of the coins I see are from the Bahri (1250-1382) or Burji(1382-1517) dynasties.

I collect these kind of coins, but know nowhere near as much about them as I do Seleukid coins.

Good luck,

-- Tom
 
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