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Can someone help me to identify this coin.

These are the two faces of the coin.

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Hello and welcome.

I'll be moving your post to the Tokens forum as soon as I'm done posting this reply, because your "coin" is not actually a coin. It's a Hindu religious token, known in India as a "ramatanka" but more commonly known in the West as a "temple token".
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I mean can you tell me when it was made and what is its Market value?
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These pieces are not dated, so it is impossible to tell exactly when it was made. There are numerals on the front, but they do not correlate to any date, in any calendar; I believe they are a code for whoever made them. "Temple tokens" were first made in the late AD 1800s, and the earliest types were often made of silver. More modern examples such as yours are usually made of brass or bronze that is then given a thin silver wash. I'd date your piece to somewhere around the 1950 to 1980 period, though they are still making pieces with much the same design today so it is difficult to be sure.

As for value, they typically sell for $5 to $10 here in Australia (I bought one for $10 from a coin club auction last year); I'm afraid I have no idea what they usually sell for in India.
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Ok thanksfor the help
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With a bit of luck, you can find a reference here:
http://indiannumismatics.com/products.php?id=152
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I found some of the infos here.
http://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coi...ain_coin=521

And as of my knowledge its a real one as it was found by my grandmother in the early 1900 or even before that.
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