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Please Identify This Indian ? Silver Coin | Temple Token

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This one has me beat.
I've looked at the pictures of Indian coins in K & M 1801-1900 and 1901-2000 in vain.

I'd like to know where it's from, which is the obverse, which way up it should be, and the date, denomination and if possible, the value in US $.

It's silver coloured and I think made of good silver.
It's square, each side measuring 20 millimetres or 25/32 inch, and it weighs 10 grams. The edges are even and flat, but not cut by a machine.

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I've looked at the pictures of Indian coins in K & M 1801-1900 and 1901-2000 in vain.

Unfortunately, you won't find it in there, for two reasons - it's not a genuine coin, and the coin it was copied off was much older than 1801.

Just above the exact centre of the bottom pic, you'll see a "date": 988, which would date from the time of Mughal emperor Akbar. Unfortunately, at that time, the kalima-in-diamond design was being used on gold mohurs, not silver rupees. this zeno.ru example is a gold mohur of Lahore mint, dated 988 - the model for this piece. Genuine square Kalima rupees of Akbar have the kalima inside a smaller square, not a diamond - like this.

The kalima-in-diamond 988-dated "rupee" is a very commonly encountered Indian "temple token". I'm not sure why, but "988" is a very commonly encountered date on Islamic temple tokens. See these zeno.ru pages. Some are old (like, 19th or early 20th century), well-made and of high-quality silver; most are cheap modern pieces. We've seen them on forum numerous times before. This one was quite poorly executed; this one was even worse.
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