Ottoman Empire coin?

11.6 gram, 32 mm? Copper?
1258 ah or 1298?
Best Regards
Rich

Hello,

I haven't found it yet, but potentially a token or imitation, I have never seen an Ottoman coin with a trident-like thing in place of the regnal year before!

Better pictures. 1298 ah clear date

Thanks for new pics, AH 1298 (1880) is also an impossible date since no Sultan ascended the throne that year either. Looks a little token-ish, perhaps an imitation?

Maybe it is not Ottoman.
Algeria or another country?

Thanks
Rich

Quote: "Rdolce"​Maybe it is not Ottoman.
​Algeria or another country?
​
​Thanks
​Rich

​I was just about to look there! Algerian eyalet coins don't use the regnal year dating used on Ottoman coins, so it's definitely a possibility. Tunisia too.

Edit: Found this one:https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces35845.html

Maybe we should just wait until Cyncos gets here.

I have this (replica) coin
The writing is very similar, and I have been given this information from Numista:
top line, reading right to left, the word "sultan" (سلطان).
Now look at the third line, from right to left. Do you see the same word? The only difference is that it starts with the article "the" (السلطان). So, yes, in Arabic you write the article attached to the word. If you learn these two forms, سلطان and السلطان, you'll recognize them in hundreds of Arabic and other eastern coins.
The third line reads "the Sultan Mahmood".
By the way, the little "w" on top is simply a reduplication sign, meaning that you pronounce the "S" sound "SS" as in "bass sound". This happens because the article "al-" ("the") is assimilated into the following consonant, depending on the consonant. So, al-sultan is actually pronounced "as-sultan".

Yes I think that it is this Tunisia coin.
1248 is the date.

Thanks

Yes, struck in Tunis: ضرب في تونس.

What makes it difficult is that if you don't already know the words, the bloody diacritics ("dots") are all over the place.

Thanks to everybody for their help.
Rich