Egypt KM# 295 10 qirsh 1884-1907

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I have Egypt KM# 295 10 qirsh 1884-1907 dated 1297/29 with mintmark H not reported on catalog Numista, or by Krause.
Usually this type get W mintmark, or no mintmark.
Some collector can help me to identify it?
May be another country? Ottoman empire or Turkey?
Thanks
Enrico
Please post a picture so we can see. :)
Sorry my scanner is not well running
But picture is exactly the same than those reported on Numista and Krause SCWC.
I have an other piece of km295 with regular mint W, that is exactly th same.
My Krause lists both W and H for the 29 date ! look:


And i had no idea these coins were minted anywhere else other than the large written Misr.
I don't have this coin tho.
Learned something new today. :)
Thanks you very much.
May you tell me what Krause have you used? SCWC or others? Year and edition please.
Enrico
Sure. It's from 2010, 37th Edition - Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000 .
You are lucky because you have not bought recent editions . 2010 is last edition reporting also H after year, infact H was reported also on my old edition 1981.
But i had checked only recent Krause SCWC 2011,2013,2015, they are not reporting anymore H.
In the last editions Krause has increased errors. It is no more working precise, also in applyng rules for add letters and comma after code for different varieties. Enrico
Wow I had no idea. I thought my version was outdated ...

Here is the listing of the 2015 Krause SCWC (42th edition). The H mintmark is omitted but the dates and mintages are still the same. So we're talking about the same coins. But of course omitting the H mintmark is a bad alteration and makes collectors doubt if they have the right determination for their coins, especially for those collectors who can't check in older editions that there was a H before. That's one of the reasons I never throw away older editions.

(sorry, with the new text editor I can't make the pictures a little bigger anymore)

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