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Temple Token? Pretty Sure It's Indian

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 Posted 07/06/2016  10:00 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Finn235 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Got this one from an ebay lot. Tried googling "copper coin with weird looking dudes" but for some reason it's not working?

Anyway, pretty sure this one is an Indian temple token, but there is always the possibility that it's not.

Temple-Token?-Pretty-Sure-It's-Indian Temple-Token?-Pretty-Sure-It's-Indian

Didn't have time to measure it, but it's about quarter size and reasonably thick. Probably around 23mm and 6-8g.

Appreciate any insights
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 Posted 07/06/2016  1:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nice job Bob--these look like a match.

@finn235, seems like searching on "highly stylized dudes" would have been more fruitful.

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Nice job, Bob!

I am slowly adding these Indian coins to my mental repertoire of "I know that coin!" But with no legends, dates, or recognizable figures, it's pretty slow work.
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Agreed...challenging area. But so many neat coins from that region!
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There are similar looking different coins of this sort. The coin you have posted is for sure of the Hindu kings of Kahsmir, Toramana or later. There is a letter "Ja" written the English letter "E" on the second image. I can give you a link
http://goccf.com/t/266233
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