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Oak Valued Member Brazil 117 Posts	Posted 02/08/2022 10:09 am Hello my friends, does anyone know how to identify this coin? Report this Post to the Staff

Spence Moderator United States 34397 Posts	Posted 02/18/2022 8:53 pm @oak, sorry for the late response. Could this be ancient Celtic? "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 Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16809 Posts	Posted 02/18/2022 11:51 pm The srivatsa symbol (top pic) is very typical of ancient and early mediaeval south-east Asia; Kingdom of Funan, the Mon kingdom, and such like; the insect on the reverse, however, is stumping me and looks rather unlike any of the coins on zeno.ru from this series. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 02/20/2022 6:10 pm Don't know if this is helpful, but the first three illustrated coins in A Hoard of Coins of the Candra Dynasty of Arakan, by Noman Nasir and Nicholas Rhodes, feature obverses described as "Conch (sankh) shell with foliage". The chevrons on the OP coin look almost like a simplified version of this, IMO: https://www.academia.edu/3819998/A_...ty_of_Arakan That motif seems to be somewhat similar to an anonymous Candra coin listed at Stephen Album Rare Coins. But this example has the motif on both sides, with no srivatsa, and here the motif is described as a scorpion or crab: https://db.stevealbum.com/php/lot_a...=1054&lang=1 Report this Post to the Staff
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