Weird pendant maybe?

[jaroberts28]

Found on a farm from the late 1700's. I have no clue what it is. Found some large cents and registered the same on my machine. It looks to be a Egyptian lady smelling a flower. Any insight would be awesome.

 

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[nhbenz]

Appears to be a Tughra on the back, like:

Old Ottoman coin perhaps?

 

[jaroberts28]

Weird I wonder how it ended up here?

 

[WilliamBoyd]

It is possibly a late 1800's Egyptian Revival pendant.

 

[Red-Coat]

Just tidying up some blasts from the past (including some very ancient ones), largely for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.

Here’s some pictures of a slightly better-preserved pendant with the same design posted previously. It depicts an Egyptian deity (on a throne) holding a ‘sesen’ (seshen) lotus flower.

Tughras are notoriously difficult to read, but I’m pretty sure it’s for Abdul Hamid II, who ruled between 1876-1909. I’m also sure that it’s just decorative and may not be contemporary for that period or even necessarily produced in Egypt, not least because the tughra is in the wrong orientation (it’s been rotated 90 degrees clockwise). This would be the tughra for Abdul Hamid II in the correct orientation:

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Cool find !

 

[Nathan W]

That is a nice find