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India Medal Or Coin

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Good day to you all! May I know what India coin or medal this is? May I also know the year? Thank you.

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Is it possible to please post a picture of the other side? Thank you!
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How I wish I could do that, Madam, but only one is allowed, I think. I will post a new topic again; i.e., its reverse. Thank you.
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No, you can attach as many pictures as you wish in a single post. You need to click on the "Reply to topic" link near the top of the screen, rather than use the quick reply box at the bottom of the screen, and you'll be given the option to attach more pics.

Stylistically, it looks similar to the "presentation" rupees of Tripura State from the 1930's. Unfortunately, these aren't listed in my 2005 Krause catalogue.
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Yes, I will try if it works, thank you.

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I'm afraid I can't really help very much with this one. It's either a presentation piece or medal of some kind, or perhaps a temple token, but I can't tell where it's from. Here's what little I can add on this piece:

The large character in the centre of the second picture (which is upside down) is the Devanagari letter Sri, an Indian honorific meaning "venerable", "holy" or "Sir". Which doesn't really help much in identifying this piece, as just about every Indian prince and ruler had at least one "sri" in their title. The same "sri" can be seen in the cartouche at the bottom (top when it's upside down), which seems to say "Sri Rastra" (my Devanagari translation is an educated guess) which apparently means "venerable nation" - also not very helpful. "Sri" also appears on the obverse, at the start of the phrase at the bottom, which is presumably the name of the deity pictured there.

The only English/Western script on the coin is the small "NR" inside the circle below the monogram. Not sure what that signifies.

There seems to be a date, or some kind of number, at the top, to the left of the swastika - "999" in Devanagari numerals. If it's a date, I'm not sure what calendar it's using - the closest I could find is the Malayalam calendar, used in Travancore, but Year 999 ME equates to 1824 AD and this piece doesn't look that old. Travancore pieces also normally use English or Tamil script, rather than Devanagari.

In the centre of the monogram, inside the dots, the "crooked 9 shape" is the Devanagari numeral "1"; perhaps the vertical line is either an Arabic or Western "1".
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Sir, I appreciate very much your help; you have done it great. Thank you and more power.
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