Help Identify A Square Coin | Indian "temple Token"

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sabih00 New Member Sweden 1 Posts	Posted 12/22/2011 05:11 am Hi all, I have this coin which I think belongs to Mughal or any Arabic empire. please help me identify it. BR, Sabih Zeb side 1 side 2 Identified - moved to Exonumia forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

trout1105 Pillar of the Community Australia 7096 Posts	Posted 12/22/2011 05:30 am 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 Edited by trout1105 12/22/2011 05:36 am Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 12/22/2011 07:23 am 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. Report this Post to the Staff
trout1105 Pillar of the Community Australia 7096 Posts	Posted 12/22/2011 07:47 am There ya go sabih. The Guru is hunting it down for you. Stick with this site mate, It is a wealth of information Edited by trout1105 12/22/2011 07:47 am Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16836 Posts	Posted 12/23/2011 12:25 am 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. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 12/23/2011 12:54 am 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. Report this Post to the Staff
drnsreedhar Pillar of the Community India 1995 Posts	Posted 12/24/2011 09:56 am You need not hesitate to call it a temple token because it surely is. Report this Post to the Staff
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Help Identify A Square Coin | Indian "Temple Token"