Could Anyone Identify This Coin? | Afghanistan Falus

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turtleoverhead Pillar of the Community Australia 585 Posts	Posted 11/06/2009 05:58 am Could anyone identify this coin please? Identified - moved to World Coin forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16924 Posts	Posted 11/06/2009 09:07 am Tricky. It's certainly Islamic - I can read "struck in" and a mintname that seems to begin with "Ka..."; Kabul, or Kashgar, or something similar I can't quite make out. The "lion with fancy tail" does appear on the "anonymous civic copper coins" of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia from the 1700's and 1800's; I suspect your coin falls somewhere in that series, though I haven;t found a close match for the lion that also matches what I can read of the mint. Do you know anything about roughly where the coin came from, that might help us narrow down the search? Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
turtleoverhead Pillar of the Community Australia 585 Posts	Posted 11/06/2009 4:07 pm I bought it in Prague from someone who didn't have an idea. So, it wouldn't help. Thank you anyway. Report this Post to the Staff
snowman Pillar of the Community United States 1841 Posts	Posted 11/06/2009 8:27 pm I agree with Sap except that I was thinking that the mint was Kashan. Also the lion with the sun over its back was a popular theme in Persia. Not that I'd bet my next paycheck on it though... Report this Post to the Staff
turtleoverhead Pillar of the Community Australia 585 Posts	Posted 11/10/2009 01:43 am Thanks everybody, clever men saw it on the yesterdays meeting and says its 19.century Afghanistan, minted in Kabul Report this Post to the Staff
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