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No but with all seriousness aside. I have no idea on ancients and the like. If there is anyone that can come along and ID this sucker for you then...  |
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The side I've decided to call the "obverse" has three clear, distinct horse legs. For me I think it is more of an elephant than a horse. |
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Well this one has me stumped also. I checked my ancient text resources and haven't found anything even close. This might be one to post on the ancient coin forum.
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05/26/2009 12:48 am
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For me I think it is more of an elephant than a horse. I thought it might be an elephant, too, but the legs are very, very horse-like, with pointy hooves and calf-balls. I think DCH's idea of a bull is possible, too, and those Narwar coins do indeed come closer than anything else I've managed to find. It's given me a time and place to try to investigate closer, anyhow. 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
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I see a trunk and tusk. Plus Elephants have very knobbly knees and ankles like that. My vote is for Elephant.
Obviously that doesn't help identify the coin though. Sorry!
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Glad that you cannot know about it all, have you tried the Ghaznavids tribe yet?
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Yes, actually I did think of them from the first - I have a Ghaznavid jital with chunky Arabic writing on the reverse that looks very similar to the reverse on this. Except, on all the Ghaznavid coins I could reference, the horses are so stylized you can barely tell that they're animals; Those are clearly legs.
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
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If I stumble on info in future, I'll let you know... no guarantees
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 Well, it's now been six years since I've posted this, and I haven't really found anything closer than the near-matches linked to above. Certainly nothing definitive enough to lock it down as. We've got a whole swag of new ancient/mediaeval experts who might not have trawled through the deep archives to find this thread. So... any new ideas out there?  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
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It's probably from one of the Eastern empires, almost looks a bit Kushan but that's only a guess. I wish that Pankaj Tandon from Coin India was a member, I bet he would know.
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 with Mass. There are a few similarities here, style-wise. Maybe this helps narrow it down? http://coinindia.com/MNI0963-437.37.jpgDevaloy Devaraja (1731-61), regent for Immadi Krishna Raja Wodeyar II (1734-66) Copper kasu, Elephant type, with crescent Weight: 2.83 gm. Diameter: 11-13 mm Die axis: n.a. Elephant left, crescent-like shape above, all within ruled and dotted borders Criss-cross lines, with circles in the empty squares Reference: MNI 963, KM 153 |
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It's definitely one of the anonymous token issues from Mysore, the assignment to a specific date range is kind of baseless for the elephant kasu. The original coin above at the start of the post is a one kasu based on the size (usually about 12 mm), I have a few of these with the numeral/pattern design. Could be either KM A13 or A15, the mark above the elephant is the only differentiation between the two numbers (see KM South Asia p. 106-107).
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Posted 05/26/2009 12:04 am
