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Three Tiny India Princely State Coins For ID

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 Posted 06/22/2025  04:00 am Show Profile   Check ClusterCoin's eBay Listings Bookmark this topic Add ClusterCoin to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I assume these are Princely State coins, but I'm not sure. They're really tiny.

Each coin is just 6mm diameter. First coin weighs 0.27g and is noticeably thinner, while the other two are 0.37g and 0.38g.

Hopefully the images are clear enough as I had trouble lighting and photographing something so small.

Thank you

Coin 1:
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Coin 2:
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Three-Tiny-India-Princely-State-Coins-For-ID


Coin 3:
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 Posted 06/22/2025  11:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add andyg to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
They purport to be Chuckram from Travencore, KM#21
Something is off about them though.

Indian coins were usually struck with a die much bigger than the flan, but here we see the edge of the die - in a place we there shouldn't be an edge.
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 Posted 06/23/2025  03:59 am  Show Profile   Check ClusterCoin's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add ClusterCoin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you for your ID andyg. Great work.

Yes, they do look unusual. I have had much larger Princely State coins and these look quite different in the way they're struck.

Could they be reproductions or tourist copies? It's possible, but it's not like these are high value coins. The three coins were found in a mixed lot of coins at auction, including a fake Roman coin, four genuine Romans, and some exonumia like medals and other trinkets.
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06/23/2025 04:01 am
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 Posted 06/24/2025  3:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add andyg to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I assume, if they are copies which I think they are, they would be for tourists rather than to deceive everyone. They are quite poor in their execution, with missing bits of design etc.
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