It does resemble that coin, but I am quite sure it doesn't weigh 10 grams. The coin is extremely light and feels like it's aluminium or something similar.
Quote: "Peter1964"It does resemble that coin, but I am quite sure it doesn't weigh 10 grams. The coin is extremely light and feels like it's aluminium or something similar.
It is around 31mm and the thickness is 1.4mm. The border of the coin had a weird line in middle of it. Looking closer at it, seems that it was made from a white metal.
A vintage tin casting of a 20 para. Pretty marvelous historical item. Dumas wrote a book about life in ottoman Europe the title
escapes me, there were whole villages employed forging coins, and the empire employed the severest means to supress
them.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac