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Iraq, Mesopotamia Campaign. Fall of Baghdad Royal Army Medical Corps AR Buckle. Fashioned from a 2 Qirans coin of Iran, 1917. 73408 N. PARKER. R.A.M.C. 16th CCS, domed mosque flanked by minaret to left and palm tree to right, BAGHDAD C.E. in two lines below / Lion standing to left, head facing and holding sword aloft; crown above, radiant sun behind, denomination below, all within wreath of oak and olive leaves; dated AH 1328 = AD 1910 below. For coin, cf. KM 1040. 8.91g, 28mm, 12h.
Engraved obv.: Extremely Fine / Original coin rev.: Good Very Fine. A likely unique and highly interesting military curiosity from the First World War.
Ex Dix Noonan Webb, Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals (Catalogue 155), 16 January 2019, lot 856 (part of).
Likely unique, this buckle was apparently fashioned from a coin of Sultan Ahmad Shah of Iran by a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps 16th Casualty Clearing Station after the Fall of Baghdad on 11th March 1917, during the Mesopotamia Campaign fought between the forces of the British Indian Army and the Ottoman Empire in the First World War.
Engraved obv.: Extremely Fine / Original coin rev.: Good Very Fine. A likely unique and highly interesting military curiosity from the First World War.
Ex Dix Noonan Webb, Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals (Catalogue 155), 16 January 2019, lot 856 (part of).
Likely unique, this buckle was apparently fashioned from a coin of Sultan Ahmad Shah of Iran by a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps 16th Casualty Clearing Station after the Fall of Baghdad on 11th March 1917, during the Mesopotamia Campaign fought between the forces of the British Indian Army and the Ottoman Empire in the First World War.