SUDAN ? SPEAR WITH CHAINS & COINS

[Atlantia]

Originally Posted by thinreadline

Thanks all of you ... that ties in with what I had believed. Here is a clearer pic of a coin with date if someone can translate .

Yep, you've got 1277 Hijira which I make 1860.
If my maths is right, then Abdulhamid II didn't take the throne until 1878 so the Tugra might be Murad V?
Assuming the date is the date of minting and not a generic date?

[thinreadline]

Originally Posted by Atlantia

Yep, you've got 1277 Hijira which I make 1860.
If my maths is right, then Abdulhamid II didn't take the throne until 1878 so the Tugra must be Murad V?

Thats great .. thanks very much for your trouble .. I realise that does not make the item as old as that but it is good to know.

[Atlantia]

Originally Posted by thinreadline

Thats great .. thanks very much for your trouble .. I realise that does not make the item as old as that but it is good to know.

Welcome mate.
Just to agree with Iain again, they do look Egyptian (ottoman egyptian).
If you look on teh bay and search for:
OTTOMAN EGYPT 1277 COIN
There is a similar one.

[Atlantia]

LOL, looks like you found one too Iain.

[Iain]

Yep posted at more or less the same time I think. I was enjoying exercising my Google fu today.

[Martin Lubojacky]

There is some resemblance with the item described in one of M. Zirngibel´s book (maybe Panga na visu) as, if I remember well, item belonging to dervish/Sudan (?)

[Vendric]

Just to add that AH 1277 is the Accession Date ofAbdul Aziz and the actual date of minting is given by the number at the top (in this case 9), so the actual date of minting was AH 1286.

Richard