It's ottoman gold kurus. The weight and diameter should give you the nominal value. A better picture of obverse will give us the reign year since all are marked as 1327 AH (when the sultan start his reign).
Just got home and put the gold coin next to a regular Jefferson Nickel and the coin is a little larger than the nickel, making me believe it is indeed the 100 kurus.
The coin looks and feels like a legitimate coin in hand and my research into other examples of the same issue revealed that all the design elements are right on, but, since I really don't know a thing about Turkish/Ottoman coins, does anything about it look suspect?
I'm sure the weight of it would prove its legitimacy or illegitimacy, so I'll bring it to work tomorrow and weigh it on one of the science classroom scales.
It looks legit but the image it's not very clear to be fully sure about. It's important to have the proper specifications and to inspect properly the design of the coin just to be sure nothing is missing or is bad executed.
Right, it has a nice full strike with all details present. Counterfeits (of most any coin) have soft, 'mushy' details and obvious differences in design elements and my coin has nice crisp details, so I'm now quite confident it is the real deal. Hopefully the weight of it will cement that.
Just took the coin to a chemistry classroom and weighed it. The scale only went to one decimal so it wasn't 100% accurate, but the weight was 7.2 g, pretty much cementing my certainty.
And, if that wasn't enough, the chemistry classroom even had a bunch of those gold testing kits you'd find in jewelry/coin shops. The coin tested positive for 22 k gold, thus proving the authenticity.
