Hay every one i found a big silver coin detecting i dont no anything about it if someone can date it for me and whare it came from what % silver it is and what its worth and what denomination it is and what it would be in usa money. i would be so greatfull thanks . o i did do a bleach test on the edge of it and it did turn black fast so i think it is silver.
huge silver coin found detecting but dont no what it is please help
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The writing is Arabic. I was never good at reading Arabic calligraphy so I don't know what it says.
Here is my best guess. I studied Arabic for 5 months at a military language academy before I switched to Spanish, so I'm a little rusty on vocab, but my alphabet knowledge is still pretty sharp.
Here is my best guess. I studied Arabic for 5 months at a military language academy before I switched to Spanish, so I'm a little rusty on vocab, but my alphabet knowledge is still pretty sharp.
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The main design on the reverse side (bottom coin) is called a tughra (or tugra). The proper orientation of the coin would be to rotate the bottom coin 90 degrees counterclockwise--so that the three 'fingers' are pointed 'north'.
Different fanciful theories have been advanced to explain the shape of the tughra. One romantic suggestion is that it represented the form of the fabulous bird the tughri, the totem of the Oghuz tribe from whom the Ottomans were descended. Another, and the one I prefer, is that it represented the thumb and three fingers of Sultan Murad I (1356-1389) who, it is alleged being illiterate, dipped his thumb and three fingers into ink and made his mark on the page – a form which then inspired the tughra.
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Different fanciful theories have been advanced to explain the shape of the tughra. One romantic suggestion is that it represented the form of the fabulous bird the tughri, the totem of the Oghuz tribe from whom the Ottomans were descended. Another, and the one I prefer, is that it represented the thumb and three fingers of Sultan Murad I (1356-1389) who, it is alleged being illiterate, dipped his thumb and three fingers into ink and made his mark on the page – a form which then inspired the tughra.
Don..........
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They speak Urdu in Turkey, right? I know Urdu uses a sort of Arabic/Persian dialectual alphabet depending on region. Would make sense why the words didn't seem to make sense to me. I'm guessing the "year" 1223 is an Islamic calendar date? I used to speak Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), didn't know any of the regional dialects. I was close though 
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Yes, as Jeff noted, 1223 is the Islamic date equal to our Gregorian date of 1808.
I believe the tugra reads: Mahmud Khan son of Abdülhamid is forever victorious
Don......
I believe the tugra reads: Mahmud Khan son of Abdülhamid is forever victorious
Don......
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Urdu= Pakistan and some parts of India
Turkey speaks Turkish, but spoke Ottoman Turkish during the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman Turkish uses Arabic script, Modern Turkish uses Latin script.
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