ID Islamic coin #AR

[tartarvs]

d:42,3mm
w:25,78g.

[rick2]

ottoman
2 piastre

accession date 1203
reignal year 10

so 1799AD

sultan selim III
struck in constantinople

i d point out that the mint reads Islambul rather than qustantyniya

[tartarvs]

Thank you  rick2

regards

[rick2]

no problem !

i love islamic coins and wished i could be able to understand them more or read arabic

anyway for those interested in reading this coin you need to start from the left pic
the right one is an image of the toughra that is common in almost all ottoman coins.

at the top you see 10 , which is the reignal year

below that the next line reads  ZURIBA FI or struck in (the long line)

the third and largest line reads ISLAMBUL  and its the indication of the mint where the coin was produced

the bottom row gives you the date where you can see 1203

you can have different mints qustantynya or islambul for constantinople , Misr for the province of egypt and then more exotic ones like
Tunus for Tunisi , Tarafulus for tripoli in lybia or  Baghdad (very rare)

[cuburo83]

this is the real colour of the coins? because for me looks like a an old epoch forgery

[rick2]

the weight is correct , we should judge by the size of the coin
to me the it looks correct.
maybe is some oxidation that has taken the shine of the billon