Thanks as always for your help. I am trying to identify two coins from the Ottoman Empire, but I cannot find these varieties in the catalog and would appreciate your help. If they are in the catalog, a link would be greatly appreciated, and if they are not, I am happy to add them.
I have narrowed the coins down by denomination and year of accession. Both are silver (possibly billon).
The accession date on the first is 1143, and I believe it was minted in Constantinople based on the signature. I cannot tell the exact year it was minted because I don't really know how to read the symbols on some of these older Ottoman coins. I can't find the variety in the catalog because of the obverse. There are a bunch of stars underneath the tughra, and I cannot find any coin in the catalog whose pictured obverse has these stars. I would greatly appreciate help identifying the year this coin was minted, confirmation that I have the mint right, and possibly a link to an identification of the coin type (or if one doesn't exist, I will add it).
The accession date on the second coin is worn, but I am fairly certain it reads 1171. I can't tell the year the coin was minted and don't read Arabic well enough to know what the mint is. I cannot find this variety in the catalog either by picture identification. On the obverse, there is a symbol to the bottom left of the tughra that I have not seen in any pictures of Ottoman para coins. I appreciate any help you can give me with this one as well.
I also realize that these coins may be from other territories of the Ottoman Empire, but I have no idea where to start searching if that's the case.
I have attached pictures that hopefully depict the identifying features of the coins well enough for a good identification. Please let me know if I need to take better ones.
Thank you!


