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These two both came from the same lot, and I'm having zero luck with them. I thought they were Danubian or Eastern Celtic, no luck there. Then checked through my SNG volumes and Plant, still no luck. Dimensions are 1.38g/11 mm, 0.94g/12 mm - both in bronze.  |
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 wow, no idea jcm...but neat pattern. could they be indian coins? |
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Only coins I have ever seen/found with the dots in circles are saxon sceats. I'll keep looking ?
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Probably not Indian, they were with an uncleaned lot with mostly (90%) Roman AEs from eastern mints (Constantinople, Heraclea, Thessalonika) and a few Byzantine bronzes and Bulgarian imitative type scyphates.
More likely to be Ottoman than Indian from that area. It would help if there was a legend. I'm keeping on hunting too.
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Circle having solid dot at centre represents sun motif that is in use even today as a logo by corporate houses, Coins of Ujjain (Northern India) bear this type of symbol......I would think its from that region of the world.?
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Trading centres in the Eastern (Roman) empire would have been hubs for all cultures and religions, who knows? Ujjayini coins would be my guess, plenty of images on google....have a look, all very crude types , but I am sure there are some very rare variants/not seen before.
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hmmmmmmm....interesting.  |
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Not Indian, I've looked through my BMC's just to be sure. 1) there are no connecting lines between the circles, 2)the reverse type doesn't match anthing Indian (with six pointed circles)
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Stars, not six pointed circles.
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Perhaps they are some type of ancient gaming tokens?
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