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Help Identify A Square Coin | Indian "Temple Token"

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 Posted 12/22/2011  05:11 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add sabih00 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi all,

I have this coin which I think belongs to Mughal or any Arabic empire. please help me identify it.

BR,
Sabih Zeb

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Identified - moved to Exonumia forum - Sap
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 Posted 12/22/2011  05:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add trout1105 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
First of all a big
I have no idea about this coin but I recon Sel or Sap will enlighten you I don't think that there is a coin made that these blokes dosen't know about
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 Posted 12/22/2011  07:23 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have a very large number of different type square coins, but almost all of them are machine struck modern ones. I have only one Mughal square rupee in my collection, and that is a different type to this one.

I would say that this coin is almost certainly Mughal, but I need to do some checking of my references to provide a more exact attribution.
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 Posted 12/22/2011  07:47 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add trout1105 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
There ya go sabih.
The Guru is hunting it down for you.
Stick with this site mate, It is a wealth of information
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 Posted 12/23/2011  12:25 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this is a "temple token", not an actual coin. This zeno.ru example is of similar design.

Genuine "Kalima-type" square rupees of Akbar look more like this, with the writing outside the square almost completely off the flan.
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 Posted 12/23/2011  12:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Didn't click with me; it should have. I have a couple of temple tokens myself and the style is faily obvious for a temple token.
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 Posted 12/24/2011  09:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add drnsreedhar to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
You need not hesitate to call it a temple token because it surely is.
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