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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 1062477, member: 111&quot;]Just to be clear, this is not an Ottoman Empire Sultan&#039;s tughra silver mark, but a fairly simple tughra in Islamic calligraphy (perhaps the makers name, location, or ?) - modern tughras can be found as personal monograms, decorative Quranic quotes, etc.&nbsp; Almost certainly Turkish, but personally, would think this attractive piece is fairly recent, doubt it&#039;s earlier than mid 20th century...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Proper late Ottoman silver marks:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]209079[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>To illustrate AJ&#039;s point on the use of tughras elsewhere - a 1949 Pakistani coin bearing a tughra:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]209083[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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