Help ID possible islamic coin [opgelost]

Hello experts!

Got this "coin" in a lot and I do not even know where to start to search for.

Can anyone guide me to where should I look? Looks like there are some arabic inscription, but I am of no use for arab characters.

Diameter: 20mm
Weight: 2.5g







Thank you for any comment!

Geison

As far as I can see, you practically identified it by yourself.

You wrote "Looks like there are some arabic inscription" and in fact you are completely right. It is not Arabic. It is imitation. Just compare your first side coin with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet#Table_of_basic_letters
and you will find out that there is no meaning in the three lines and three dots. It is imitation. You may start to look for the territories, which used to allow Arabic coins at their market and issued by themselves when it is necessary something extra. Usually it was about silver and gold.

Your item looks like of copper origin. It may mean the imitation for other purposes, such as decoration. In this case it may be on the territories of Arab culture and indeed it could be used as a coin (there were and still are a lot of illiterate people).

Citeer: "cyprusalexander"​As far as I can see, you practically identified it by yourself.
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​You wrote "Looks like there are some arabic inscription" and in fact you are completely right. It is not Arabic. It is imitation. Just compare your first side coin with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet#Table_of_basic_letters
​and you will find out that there is no meaning in the three lines and three dots. It is imitation. You may start to look for the territories, which used to allow Arabic coins at their market and issued by themselves when it is necessary something extra. Usually it was about silver and gold.
​
​Your item looks like of copper origin. It may mean the imitation for other purposes, such as decoration. In this case it may be on the territories of Arab culture and indeed it could be used as a coin (there were and still are a lot of illiterate people).

I appreciate your light Cyprus,
I guess you are right, must be a token or decoration of some sort, it will stay on my box of tokens for now.

Thank you for your time and knowledge,

Geison

A para minted in Tripoli (Libya) ?

Weight, diameter and "style" could match with an official issue but the caligraphy is a bit weird, I don't see a date on this coin nor the mention "gharb" for this mint. Probably an unofficial issue for me.

I propose the following reading.
Observe : ر / ض / ب
Reverse : ابلس / طر

Hi,
this is a tin Pitis from Ajeh Sultanate:
https://fr.numista.com/catalogue/pieces88799.html

Looks good attribution. Dots are too seldom, mass is too small, but it is easy to explain these as the token issue. If Mitchener describes it as a token, how it became official coin then (Standard circulation coin in Numista)?

Citeer: "asimov37"​Hi,
​this is a tin Pitis from Ajeh Sultanate:
​https://fr.numista.com/catalogue/pieces88799.html

​Thank you very much!

Thank you for all comments and toughts, I will still research this piece.

Will mark as solved for now. You are all amzazing!

I will just leave here a simmilar one I found on Zeno, maybe will be useful for future researchers.
https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=84582

This one is much closer to the coin in the first post. It has reference as KM#1. It seems possible to add it to the Numista catalog as well.