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Valued Member
Belgium
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Hello CCF friends could anybody please help me sort the variant of this silver rupee. can't seem to locate a mint, supposed to be on the left ribbon (prolly gone?) it has 19 berries and I think large diamonds or are they small?      thanks in advance
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There is no mint mark I can see, that should make it Bombay, if I recall. Check the neck truncation, the designer initials should be present and will tell you mint and years of issue.
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Australia
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Valued Member
 Belgium
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Thanks guys, but the 1840. is not discribed on that site ,so I took out my world coins cataloge and all the info was in there.
looks like its the KM#457.3 19 berries small diamonds no ribbon marks make it the Bombay mint ,like paxbrit said
thanks for looking :)
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Australia
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Valued Member
 Belgium
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I'm a dumb butt :p i did try and look for it but seems I could not find the same link as you just had to scroll down for the link but I tryed tru the home page
nway here it go's
Ridges on Ribbon: None, Initials on bust: None, Point of Bust: 2mm, Lock of Hair: No, Head Type: English. Berries in wreath: 19 (10L;9R), Leaf group: Bud, Privy Mark: None, Date Digits: Large.
makes it bomabay mint
Nway thanks for the help/link and I love the MS coin you have there ! do I c traces of a incuse outline on that coin?
Edited by dohcollector 05/25/2016 4:49 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Quote: love the MS coin you have there ! do I c traces of a incuse outline on that coin? That one is graded AU53, It is ridiculously hard to find an uncleaned coin of this type 
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Valued Member
 Belgium
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realy now,i thought mine was around low AU and your MS
so guess mine would not make AU
one more question trout is there not a die clash outline on that coin? we call it incuse down here thats why you did't understand my q I think :)
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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There is a slight clash on the reverse But this isn't that unusual with these coins.
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