Sorry, I put in KM-16 by accident. Should be KM-1 or KM-2, only difference is the weight (look in the 18th century KM or their Indian Coins catalog). The example they show for KM-14 in the 19th century volume is a presentation piece (nazarana). Yours is the 978 frozen date (you can see "78" on yours) They kept the date fixed for the small denomination coppers since the founding of the dynasty. The vertical lines are the degenerate leftovers of wording from earlier types of Gujarati Sultans' coins.
But there's plenty of variation over the 300 or so years this type was issued so it won't exactly match the picture in the book. The date and style is good enough to confirm it.
Dokda is just a conjugate of Dokdo. Don't put too much reliance on the currency system charts in KM for some of the Indian states, they're the "theoretical" systems which worked well on paper for the schroffs or later during the Raj.
Posted 08/05/2013 9:53 pm
