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Unidentifiable Coins | India & Bhutan

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 Posted 02/24/2014  7:40 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add davidc to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
new to this game these 2 coins have been driving me mad any help appreciated davidc

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 Posted 02/24/2014  8:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ASLAN TVorlon to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The right one is a Pice coin from Bhutan

Bhutan km27 1 Pice (1951,1955)

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I keep thinking Nepal on the one on the left but can't find it...
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Strange, I was thinking the one on the left was also Nepal, but I went though the catalog and couldn't find it. I am now thinking an Indian Princely State, like Kutch, as they use the same calendar, but I also can't find the coin.
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I looked through the whole sub-continent area, even up to Tibet and Mongolia. Down the SE Asian peninsula seems wrong. The text looks like Nepal but the cow is not quite right. I also looked at some India Principalities but no luck either.



EDIT: Also Krause was saying something about the 1955 coins being weaker, or different in some way because they were re-tolled dies and might have showed more ware then the 1951's, so I guess if it seems extra crisp it's the 1951.
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the one one the left is indore, india prince. can you put up dimensions and I can id the coin
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the coin is 25mm across weighs about 6 grams thanks for your help I have been battling with these coins for while regards etc davidc
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serial is right, it is an Indore coin. I forgot that they also used the Nepalese calendar when I was searching.

It is not KM#33 because the legend is continuous around the cow. That leaves KM#35 and KM#32.

For comparison the Bhutan 1 Pice is 21.28 mm in diameter. The reverse lettering at the top of the Indore coin (the coin is upside down in the pic) is "पाव," which I believe is the value, means it is going to be KM#32 (http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces26095.html).

As for the date I am having a hard time reading it, but through a process of elimination I think it is VS 1944 (which is A.D. 1887 in the western calendar).

I would feel better about my attribution is someone who knows a bit more can check it.

I am not sure which variety it is though, KM#32.3 or KM#32.4?
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A challenge like that and it took us more than TWELVE hours.... we must be slipping!

Dumb luck on my part to find the Bhutan coin in the first place, after striking out with Nepal on the first one I went regional and ended up in Bhutan gotta love the hunt

gotta LOVE The CCF

EDIT: In my searching of Provincial India and other areas I found coins called a PICE and at least one called PIE can I have a PICE of PIE

Edit: spelling
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David,
left picture should be rotated 180 deg.
Seems to be India Indore VS194?
KM33.?
Top and middle line sa33.ys 0.5 paisa
I think KM#33.4, but I am not sure
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