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New Member
United Arab Emirates
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*** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. ***Guys can anyone identify this coin? like the origin, how old and value? Thanks Jerry  Edited by jerryazhakathu
11/27/2015 01:37 am
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Rest in Peace
United States
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 Coin? Haven't a clue, looks like a Chuck E Cheese token designed by Salvador Dali. The collector's of these cuties will be here soonest most to set you right. Meanwhile, enjoy the imaginary music.   |
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 United Arab Emirates
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Well I approached many to find out .. but now it seems the experts are also Chuck E Cheese :D
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Valued Member
United States
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Not an expert here at all, but with what I do know, I would guess Persia or western India between 500 to 700 AD, maybe earlier, but pre-Islam. The right picture is an animal and the left picture appears to be a couple of large sanskrit type characters
Seems to be the the type of coin planchet that was cut from a copper or bronze round bar and hand hammered dies used to make the devices.
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Valued Member
United States
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Looks to be the diameter of between a current UAE 1 Fils and 20 Fils coin, correct? Also, probably thicker than most current coins.
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New Member
United Arab Emirates
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Hi Abraham Thanks. It is quite thick and is made of copper. Please the attached picture. I am so confused as no one seems to decipher the scripts and Horse is not usually depicted on Indian Coins as far as I understand.. It is also a bit heavy as well.  Edited by jerryazhakathu
11/27/2015 11:58 am
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Moderator
 United States
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It's not an ancient coin, it appears to be from one of the Indian States.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm casting my vote for Indian Princely States. These can be deceptively modern; they made coins that looked like this all the way up to the early 1900s.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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As a generic type they are very common; I bought a handful of them for 20 cents each (at the time I probably paid too much), in a street market in Mumbai, when I was visiting there way back in 1970.
I have never found anybody who has the required numismatic knowledge to identify them.
I have shown mine to lots of Indian born folks who just say that they are old copper coins,
and quite a few coin dealers who don't have specialist knowledge to read the script on these coins.
Very often, the planchet with these coins is so small that a lot of the script does not get struck onto them, and that fact often makes them very difficult to fully identify.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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United States
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and Horse is not usually depicted on Indian Coins... Not a horse, and - I believe - not Indian. Looks to be a civic copper falus of Iran or thereabouts, perhaps 18th century. Fairly common obverse motif: lion and sun. Some similar:    Another thread dealing with similar coins: https://goccf.com/t/90515Edited by Kamnaskires
11/27/2015 11:00 pm
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Australia
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Yep, it's definitely not a horse, but a lion-and-sunface civic copper of Iran.
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