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Ag47 New Member Australia 45 Posts	Posted 05/14/2020 08:47 am From left to right: 1.British East India Company half Anna. 2.(top) French Indian Fleur de lis type, Puducherry mint( city name in Tamil on the reverse. Circa 1700s (bottom) Rooster type with the same reverse, 1836 3. Danish-Norwegian, minted by the Danish East Indian Company in the city Tranquebar under king Christian V in the late 1600s. 4.(top) Dutch East Indian Company minted 'duit' coin, 1766. (bottom) a 1695 Dutch Indian duit coin minted in the city of Negapatnam, written in Tamil on reverse with the Hindu god Kali on the obverse! Report this Post to the Staff

Numister Pillar of the Community Singapore 631 Posts	Posted 05/14/2020 09:48 am Cool stuff. Never seen the Fleur De Lis and Chicken type before, are they expensive ? Report this Post to the Staff
Ag47 New Member Australia 45 Posts	Posted 05/14/2020 10:00 am They are kinda niche! but, the rooster coin itself is uncommon, and with full date and strike is pretty hard to come by, I got this coin for 25 USD. The fleur de lis type is more common, but it's also really uncommon to find them in a full strike, I was lucky enough to win an auction at 20 USD, while the coin in this condition can worth easily 30-40 USD! You can see them on ebay, often with high prices for lower grade coins than mine lol. Report this Post to the Staff
tdziemia Pillar of the Community United States 7962 Posts	Posted 05/14/2020 12:16 pm Quote: Cool stuff. @Ag47, I noticed your post on coins with Hindu deities, too. Do you collect several themes like this from south Asia? Or have a broad collection from this part of the world,and are sharing some selections. I used to have a rooster coin from Penang, I think, but if I understand correctly, on yours the rooster is a French symbol, hence something very different. Report this Post to the Staff
Ag47 New Member Australia 45 Posts	Posted 05/14/2020 1:15 pm @tdziemia I mostly focus on Australian, American(USA), and Indian pre-independence coinage! and yeah, this is a French Gallic rooster! Edited by Ag47 05/14/2020 1:16 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Numister Pillar of the Community Singapore 631 Posts	Posted 05/15/2020 01:43 am I met a Indian coin dealer before and he had so many obscure varieties of Indian coinage I had never seen before. I bought a few cause I wasn't really sure about the authenticity. Seems like an untapped or slightly ignored area of coin collecting. Report this Post to the Staff
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