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Cat hallmark. Egypt? silver content? year?

Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 12:50 pm
by paraphrenie
Hallo

I think it is from Egypt, but in which year was it make (Z) and more important the silver content.
It is a Cat (Egypte). I don’t know what the first thing is. And a Z.

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thank you

Re: Cat hallmark. Egypt? silver content? year?

Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 5:51 pm
by Gimme
Well it is certainly Egyptian, silver content is 800, dating Egyptian is very difficult because there seems to be NO resource to read the date codes anywhere on line or in print...... but it is before 1946..... city stamp is also very hard to read prolly Cairo but could be Alexandrina

Re: Cat hallmark. Egypt? silver content? year?

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:53 pm
by infinator
Also the Roman Lettering system was changed to Arabic letters after 1940 so it has to be from before then.

Re: Cat hallmark. Egypt? silver content? year?

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 6:01 pm
by infinator
Here's a good picture of an Egyptian silver date chart that i just found on Flickr, it says x hallmark is from 1922-23

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44079982@N08/4190577772/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Cat hallmark. Egypt? silver content? year?

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:12 pm
by rauls
infinator wrote:Here's a good picture of an Egyptian silver date chart that i just found on Flickr, it says x hallmark is from 1922-23

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44079982@N08/4190577772/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Correct, and I can make sure for you that the year letter "Z" is for 1924~25.