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Edited by Seeker55
01/06/2018 6:12 pm
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It is probably a seal, rather than a coin. Seals are usually made of lead, rather than copper.
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It looks like some coins I have seen from Ancient India, but I know very little about these so I can't help you any further.
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It looks like some coins I have seen from Ancient India @arusa, do you mean the design elements or the folding of the flan? I have seen coins bent in half, but never a coin where the flan was folded over prior to striking. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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There are coins on Zeno from Afghanistan and Iran made by folding over copper sheet like this.
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Ok well then I learned something new today. I'll have to check them out. Thanks!
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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There is a very similar, larger (4.05 g) coin listed in the Zeno database from Bahawalpur as a square falus with a laminate (folded) planchet. It's attributed as KM Y-1 made from AH 1205-1281 (AD 1791-1865). Here's the listing. https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=96276The photos for Bahawalpur Y-1 in the KM book don't look like this, but there is a note that there are several varieties and the shape can be "folded over." The markings for the laminate falus in Zeno appear somewhat similar to me to those on the small coin in question here. So I'm going with an attribution of a fractional falus from Bahawalpur in this time period. |
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Posted 01/07/2018 12:29 pm
