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New Member
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 Hi there, I just grabbed this online with no info given- I had spent about 2 hours trying to find a match prior to that to no success; so I figured why not ask you folks. My best bet is possibly an Indian Princely State or maybe Persia/Afghanistan; the upper line of the legend seems to be an Indian (Devnagari?) script though, which I only noticed after quite a while, so this would limit it fairly specifically to South Asia. Anyway, if anyone can lend a hand or some advice, I'd be very grateful. Tried a lot of searches/browsing indexes and found nothing so far. Edited by Fairfax98
02/17/2024 3:54 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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It's a bit older than princely state, of a class of coins known as "Jitals", the right picture is actually of a horseman, I'm no expert in these though.
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New Member
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Hi Andy, thanks a lot for your suggestion. To be honest, I really can't see a horseman here? Admittedly the only type of jital I'm used to seeing is the more standard bull/horseman combo- if anything, the right looks to me more likely to be some sort of Kufic/Arabic calligraphy- I've seen vaguely similar (but nothing quite the same) on some Persian coinage before, but really open to suggestions here.
I will take another look at Tye's Jitals catalogue (which is very helpfully available online, at least the photos which he's shared on another site) and see if I can find anything similar- but I have used that reference a few times before and not sure there is a good match.
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New Member
United States
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Actually after heading back to Tye I find that there are some jitals made like this though have yet to find a perfect match- thanks very much and I will now change post title accordingly!!
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New Member
United States
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Right, having had a spare hour I have just gone very carefully over Tye's catalogue. I focused much more on trying to find a match for the legend, which should be easier than matching up the horse- sadly none of the 400 jitals in Tye seem to be a match for this.
If anyone has some tips for identifying the legend (or even the script, which I think is probably arabic but am not certain), I'd be extremely grateful.
If anyone also knows of any other online resources/sites, other than Tye, which contain large indexes of jitals I'd also be very grateful. Thanks again Andy for helping to narrow down the search.
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I've been using Numista, myself, and then supplementing with Zeno only once I had an idea where to look. By the looks of it, this is most likely a Khwarizmshah issue, but I hadn't been able to find an exact match yet.
But I hadn't realized that there were this few labelled jitals on Zeno, so I guess I can check out all of those too...
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Edited by january1may
02/18/2024 5:38 pm
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Hi January + Andy,
Thanks very much indeed for your tips and yes this is absolutely right. I have now been searching for other jitals for sale here (a few of which I've bought, posts to follow soon) and am making use of the Tye-Zeno combo which is working very well. Thanks a ton for all your help!!
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