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Valued Member
Netherlands
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can someone help me with this coin the image looks like carrots diameter: 25mm, weight: 6.39 grams thanks in advance!   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have to wonder if it's amphora, ancient jugs for transport and storage.
No clue about the coin thou maybe this would work better in the ancients section
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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We'll leave it here for now until it's identified, unless Sap decides to move it there for more eyeballs.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Personally I think they look like seed pods. Cocoa pods come to mind. But it's made more challenging in that the coin is double struck with some of the design of the 'pod' side on the other ..
very interesting though!
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Moderator
 Australia
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Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure it's not ancient. I'd agree with Tom, the double-striking has made it much less legible than it should be.
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
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Valued Member
 Netherlands
202 Posts |
Thanks for your help. Can you tell me a bit more about the coin you have in mind? I cant find an afghan coin with that number.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Here's a thumbnail from numismaster.com. Close, but I don't know if we're there yet.   |
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
2895 Posts |
Mint: Kabul
KM# 55.2 FALUS
Copper
Obv: sword between leaves
AH1232 = 1916AD
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I don't think we'll get any further with this - there just isn't a good list of these anonymous Falus. It doesn't look too ancient to me and is double-struck (as many of the Afghan series are) to make identification all that harder.
ps AH1232 = 1816
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Valued Member
Netherlands
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Thanks a lot for all the help.
I didn't expect this weird coin to get identified!
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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indeed Andy,
my mistake, sorry
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