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Unc/Au Coin, Guessing India? Need Help With Date And Origin

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 Posted 01/06/2015  4:41 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Chance to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I've poured through a lot of Google image searches and cant find one similar, any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks,
Chance

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 Posted 01/06/2015  4:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Your coin is a nazarana rupee from the Indian princely state of Jaipur. It is dated 1911, which is the AD date. NGC database entry.

Unfortunately, your coin is not Unc or AU. It can be difficult to tell wear on hand-struck coins such as this that are purely Arabic/Persian script, but the script is supposed to be well rounded in form; on your coin, it's quite flat, so I'd grade it VF at best.
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Thank you Sap, that was fast, I'm embarrassed I spent the amount of time I did searching. I might have a couple more, I'll see if I can stump you tomorrow.
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It helps if you know the terminology of what to look for. I guessed your coin was a "rupee". The mintmark on this coin, visible on the right hand side of your top pic, is a picture of a plant - specifically, a "jhar" plant (I knew that there were several States that used this mintmark). I could also read the date as 1911. There is a second date-numeral on your coin, "32", meaning the 32nd year of reign of the prince named on the coin. So I just searched Google images for "1911 32 rupee jhar" and several examples, including an NGC database coin, were on the first page.

Easy, when you know how.
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