yaxthri
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- Nov 17, 2010
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Hi fellow treasurehunters.
This Summer I spent my holidays on a greek island in the Aegean.
This place has a long history, many people came and went, many countries and rulers grasped at it. Venice, Genoa, the Ottoman empire, Italy and Germany all for some time occupied this small piece of land. I didn't really have time to get around but I squeezed in a couple of long walks, mainly beachcombing for modern coins and flotsam. On one of my walks I made this odd eyeball find, I found a small round piece of crusty green metal lying among some rubble.
It looked like a coin because it is round, well not completely as you can see, it has some chips where red dull metal is peeking out. I took my find home and had a beeter look ata it, I couldn't make out any surface features. So gave it the olive oil immersion treatment for some days, a little H2O2 bath and then I scrubbed it with soap and an old toothbrush.
The thing is really toast as you can see, very, very corroded... the disc looks like it is split right in the middle, like two discs one on top of the other. Hardly any surface feature is recognisable besides of something that looks like a flower on one side and maybe some symbols or decorations besides that (something like a "7" on the same side and a "resting" "3" on the other)... It has a diameter of about 18mm and weighs around 2gr.
Looks really old, I can't really say I know what it is but searching the internet and because of the unrecognisable symbols I had this idea to look up old ottoman coins and this could be an ottoman copper manghir... I think.
Anyone in here familiar with old coins of that sort? Or maybe I am way off and it is some other kind of coin, as I wrote, many people used to live there during the past. Or maybe the corrosion marks look to my eyes as symbols and it;s no coin at all but something else?...
Please take a look at the pics. I tried to illuminate it sideways so the symbols will show better, didn't work as good as I hoped though... Each row has two pics of the same side rotated 180 degrees, to show more details.
Any help will be appreciated
This Summer I spent my holidays on a greek island in the Aegean.
This place has a long history, many people came and went, many countries and rulers grasped at it. Venice, Genoa, the Ottoman empire, Italy and Germany all for some time occupied this small piece of land. I didn't really have time to get around but I squeezed in a couple of long walks, mainly beachcombing for modern coins and flotsam. On one of my walks I made this odd eyeball find, I found a small round piece of crusty green metal lying among some rubble.
It looked like a coin because it is round, well not completely as you can see, it has some chips where red dull metal is peeking out. I took my find home and had a beeter look ata it, I couldn't make out any surface features. So gave it the olive oil immersion treatment for some days, a little H2O2 bath and then I scrubbed it with soap and an old toothbrush.
The thing is really toast as you can see, very, very corroded... the disc looks like it is split right in the middle, like two discs one on top of the other. Hardly any surface feature is recognisable besides of something that looks like a flower on one side and maybe some symbols or decorations besides that (something like a "7" on the same side and a "resting" "3" on the other)... It has a diameter of about 18mm and weighs around 2gr.
Looks really old, I can't really say I know what it is but searching the internet and because of the unrecognisable symbols I had this idea to look up old ottoman coins and this could be an ottoman copper manghir... I think.
Anyone in here familiar with old coins of that sort? Or maybe I am way off and it is some other kind of coin, as I wrote, many people used to live there during the past. Or maybe the corrosion marks look to my eyes as symbols and it;s no coin at all but something else?...
Please take a look at the pics. I tried to illuminate it sideways so the symbols will show better, didn't work as good as I hoped though... Each row has two pics of the same side rotated 180 degrees, to show more details.
Any help will be appreciated
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