Please Help Me Identify This Coin :-) (Id: Indian State Of Banswara Paisa)

to the Community!

First off, welcome to CCF.

Since your coin seems to have been definitively identified, I'd just comment that some wag once remarked that the British and Americans were two people separated by a common language. The term "boot fair" on this side of the pond would for most conjure up a very different sort of event that it does over there -

In the UK boot fairs have become very popular over the last few years. UK "boot" = US "trunk" of a car.

When a field is set aside for a boot fair sellers hire a place, where they can sell anything they like from the boot of their car. After paying to hire their spot, they keep the rest of their takings.

Boot fairs have become big business. But there is a general understanding that what you buy is "as seen", with no comeback if it is broken or not what you thought it was. It is a good place to haggle but also a good place to sell stolen goods. Cash is the most common method of purchase, so buyers and sellers can be untraceable after the event. Buyer beware!

I was, of course, cognizant of what a "boot fair" in fact was. Here in the U.S. such would be called either a "swap meet" or a "flea market", and these operate on the same basis as you describe for a boot fair. A twist over here is that while many vendors are selling personally owned goods and set up once or at most a few times, others are there every week operating a quasi-business. There're also folks who use these to sell off the contents of abandoned storage lockers which they've bought at auction. Some of these charge admission for buyers, but most are free to attend. In any case, these venues are notorious so far as numismatic items go for being rife with modern fakes. However, on occasion some very nice stuff can show up there. See: http://goccf.com/t/205061

I rather like another British term, that being "jumble sale" which is as I understand it, is more along the lines of a rummage sale conducted for the benefit of a church, charity or other civic organization, but which I think rather perfectly evokes the essence of the offerings to be found at these kind of events.

Please accept my apologies Lucky Cuss if I appeared to insult your intelligence - it was not my intention. One of the things I like about this website is that it is international. There are people unfamiliar with UK customs, and I was aiming my comments at them.

I too like "jumble sale", but the term appears to be disappearing. To me it conjures up images of a mouldy damp church hall, scrabbling through heaps of near-worthless junk on wooden trestle tables hoping for a real bargain, while being elbowed aside in the head by large old ladies wearing 1950's style coats. When as a kid I had the odd shilling to spare, this was how it was.

Perhaps others feel the same way, which is why jumble sales have mostly been rebranded with more upmarket terms?