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Message:: [QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 12214004, member: 78949"]Just to add that these coins (the original ones) can be copper, silver or gold, depending on their nominal value, and that they bear both the year of the accession of the sultan to the throne according to the Islamic calendar together with coin's nominal value (reverse) and the year of the coin mintage (obverse) but counted as the consequent year of the sultan's reign - e.g. year 1 of XX sultan's reign, year 2 of XX sultan reign, etc. - below the personal signature/toughra of this particular sultan. Bronwen is right - Marko's coin is supposed to be a 40 para Ottoman coin bearing on the obverse the personal stamp (toughra) of Sultain Abdülmecid I and indicating year 25th of the sultan's reign - this is the Arabic numeral figure indicated below the toughra. The thing is that this sultan reigned 22 years and it is not possible to have year 25th of his reign. The next sultan minted coins with different toughra as toughra was personal and distinct of each sultan. So Any is proven right in her suspicions that the coins are fake. Below is what the coin should look like<a href="https://en.numista.com/10137" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/10137" rel="nofollow">40 Para - Abdülmecid I (Constantinople) - Ottoman Empire – Numista</a>[/QUOTE]