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CoinHoarder64 New Member United States 33 Posts	Posted 07/01/2015 1:05 pm I can't find this coin anywhere. Any help is appreciated. Report this Post to the Staff

John Paul Valued Member United States 232 Posts	Posted 07/01/2015 7:41 pm I agree that this is likely a token, but I cannot figure out what the script is. It does not look like Arabic or Hindi to my untrained eye, but I cannot come up with anything it does look like. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16826 Posts	Posted 07/01/2015 8:44 pm It is indeed an Indian "temple token". The script isn't Arabic, because these deities are Hindu and you won't find Arabic on a Hindu item. If it is actually a script and not just meaningless doodles intended to only vaguely resemble writing, then I'd guess it was some sort of South Indian script, related to modern Tamil; something like this. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
zxcccxz Pillar of the Community Canada 5417 Posts	Posted 07/01/2015 8:49 pm That is most certainly a Indian (or atleast Hindu) religious token. On the obverse you find Ram and Sita seated. On the reverse is Hanuman (hindu god) who found for Ram against the demon Ravana. The scrupt is neither Hindu nor Arabic, it's likely urdu (albeit with less stylization than is normally used), but I don't read Urdu (or Hindi/arabic for that matter) so I can't confirm this. Ram was ffom the city of Ahohdya in Uttar Pradesh, where the main languages are Hindi and Urdu so I suspect that the script is urdu. I have no extenuating knowledge of religious tokens so I can't help you ID this specific one (and there tens of thousands of these made every year with different designs so there really is no reference thats ID's them anyway). Edited by zxcccxz 07/01/2015 8:56 pm Report this Post to the Staff
CoinHoarder64 New Member United States 33 Posts	Posted 07/01/2015 9:28 pm Thank you for all the information guys. I had a Hindu guy try to read it once and I think I remember that he said it was in Urdu and that he couldn't read it. Edited by CoinHoarder64 07/01/2015 9:29 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 07/05/2015 4:17 pm If you search on this site : http://indiannumismatics.com/index.php you will propably find it. tokens - religious tokens .... Report this Post to the Staff
numisart Valued Member United States 57 Posts	Posted 07/19/2015 01:52 am It is definitely a ramatanka a/k/a "temple token" with Hindu religious iconography, however, the language is definitely not Urdu which is written in Perso-Arabic script. Unfortunately I cannot identify the language off-hand. I will look and see if this type is cataloged in Mitchiner's work. Edited by numisart 07/19/2015 01:53 am Report this Post to the Staff
alganbagerap Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2490 Posts	Posted 07/19/2015 08:20 am It probably isn't a language, just decoration. Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 07/19/2015 08:27 am Yes indeed, propably a 'replica' ramatanka Report this Post to the Staff
CoinHoarder64 New Member United States 33 Posts	Posted 07/19/2015 08:29 am I found it on the indian numismatics website a while back. Heres the link http://indiannumismatics.com/prodde...?prod=152220 Report this Post to the Staff
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