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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Hi all, Was browsing the bay and came across this.. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251522857993?ru=http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html%3F_sacat=0&_from=R40&_nkw=251522857993&_rdc=1 What is the general opinion? Plated or been buried near other metal? Not one I recognise in that size. You will never soar like an eagle if you hang around with turkeys.....
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Moderator
 United States
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Looks Celtic and doesn't look plated IMO.
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Pillar of the Community
 United Kingdom
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Thanks Ron. Bidding on it at the moment but was being reserved. It looks to have a good shape was just a little put off by the green on it.
You will never soar like an eagle if you hang around with turkeys.....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This coin is fine gold...but...
Is not Celtic...
Is not ancient..
It's a gold fanam of the Indian princely states c. AD 1700's.
About 0.80 grams.
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Australia
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Yep, they're the kinds of coins that the hypers of uncleaned coins used to use to salt their uncleaned lots with, so that people would leave "I found gold!" feedback for them. The gold price has gone up too high for people to just give these things away, now.
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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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Thank you, just asked the seller to remove my bids on it.
You will never soar like an eagle if you hang around with turkeys.....
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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That one looks alot more celtic(y) than my little Fanam...  |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
1569 Posts |
Obviously different, no doubt about that.
You will never soar like an eagle if you hang around with turkeys.....
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United States
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Never wood have guessed that it wasn't Celtic.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5155 Posts |
Looks less like RED's but more like Anoob's....
I have one just like the one the seller is offering...I believe I paid $16...a few years ago...I believe this one is the Boar motif, I didn't really like it because they are super common and I have no other Gold to go with it. I consider myself a collector of Silver but I still like Bronze.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i thought for sure it was celtic as well..i'll be darned. now red's looks like an indian coin.
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Valued Member
United States
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On RED's coin, right picture top line of characters, I read an arabic numeral date of either 1219AH or 1319AH. Which is roughly 1804 or 1901 by our calendar. I can't tell if the one arabic character is a 2 or a 3.
EDIT: I meant right picture not left picture. Fixed.
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05/09/2014 1:34 pm
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