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Author Topic: What a beauty! Ottomans Gold Dinar, ID help  (Read 1156 times)

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Offline epmunt

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What a beauty! Ottomans Gold Dinar, ID help
« on: September 28, 2007, 11:17:15 am »
It is an ottoman gold, ID help please? Many thanks!

Weight: 3.5 grams  Size:  20 mm

Offline Howard Cole

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Re: What a beauty! Ottomans Gold Dinar, ID help
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2007, 05:22:10 pm »
I am not really sure since I can't read Arabic, but I think this is an Ottoman dinar minted in Misr (Egypt).  I can read the date of 926 AH on it with would mean this coin was most likely minted by Suleiman I ibn Selim (926-974 AH). But as I stated, I could be wrong.

 

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