help id arabic coin?

[ivanhoeinred]

not sure if this is a coin or medallion can anyone help it is an insert in a silver dish.

[mountaingigi]

If that is on the bottom, it is more than likely a hallmark. A few more photos would be helpful.

[afantiques]

It is Turkish, late Ottoman empire period but I cannot see it well enough to identify it.

[mountaingigi]

So it is a coin ... wonder why it was inset into whatever that thing is?

Sing along with me - "fools rush in, where wise men never go".

ETA: Unless that whole thing is a giant coin. Be pretty hard to carry it around though, unless you're George Costanza.

[afantiques]

Coins inset into small dishes or ladles are not uncommon. Georgian toddy ladles seem the be the most common item to include a coin.

[maxine*j]

I have seen that.  But this still doesn't look like an inset coin to me.  I can't get my eyes to see it that way in those photos, even knowing that it is.

[daveydempsey]

Its a 5 Kurush from Turkey dated 1912  83% silver, its been soldered into the base of a plate, saucer or cup from what I can see.

[nice_old_things]

This is a coin from the Turkish Ottoman era. 

It reads in arabic : عز نصره ضرب في قسطنطينة ١٣٢٧

which translates into: made in Constantinople in 1327 Hijri year