Arabic inscription token identification [solved]

2.6 g
ø 22 mm

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It's dated 1224, regnal year 11 and looks ottoman but I can't tell more....

Yes year 11 of Mahmud II. I don't find any special event this year for this token.

Quote: "Choucas"​It's dated 1224, regnal year 11 and looks ottoman but I can't tell more....

​I don't think it's regnal year. i think it's 11th of July (Tammūz)

Can't find any relevant event though..

Inscription on 2nd pic

11 تموز (July) 1224

حريت مساوات اخوت
Freedom Equality Fraternity/Brotherhood

Can't quite read the inscription on 1st pic

The phrase: حريت مساوات اخوت

More accurately translated as the French Republican motto "Liberty Equality Fraternity", was used by liberals and reformers in the Ottoman Empire promoting the installation of a constitution; here you can see an example in the same context:



Their efforts eventually culminated in the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, which would be AH 1326 (as seen on the postcard), about a century after the date the token bears (that we can be sure of; it is not a coin type). The republican motto had barely even spread to Turkey in AH 1224 (1809) and it was not adopted until the late 19th century by reformer groups.... so my guess is the token does not date from 1809, but rather from sometime between 1876 and 1908.

I stumbled upon the same photo when I did my search
In addition to your sleuthing, the token is also missing one of the four words in the cards/phamplet.
Hence, the question of its origin/purpose remains unanswered.

Quote: "yusofharun"​
​I stumbled upon the same photo when I did my search
​In addition to your sleuthing, the token is also missing one of the four words in the cards/phamplet.
​Hence, the question of its origin/purpose remains unanswered.

​Just because it's missing one of those words doesn't mean they can't be related in origin, I think the incorrect date is a bigger hole in my theory.

Perhaps if anyone can find another such token online ?

The date on the token is AH1224
the date left on the card is AH1324
A difference of (AH)100

A typo in the date ?
I'm not completely sure about the name in the Tugrah but we can see "el-Ghazi" at the right so it's most likely Mehmed V or Abdülhamid II period instead of Mahmud II here : in this case the date is most likely 1324.
Even the date under the tugrah looks a bit like 1324.

The tughra looks Abdülhamid II, the 34th Sultan (1876 - 1909)

Somehow related to the "Young Turks" revolution ?

Quote: "Frenchlover"​
​Somehow related to the "Young Turks" revolution ?

​Yes, I think my theory about the 1908 revolution hit it on the head, maybe AH 1224 is indeed a typo.

According to opinions from everyone, I created a catalog......



https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces141425.html


If there is any mistake, please don't hesitate to modify or add information.

Thank you all.


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fixed and completed lettering on the token page