Unknown Arabic Coin Ah988? | Indian Temple Token

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thai-vic Pillar of the Community Thailand 1509 Posts	Posted 12/11/2009 8:35 pm Can anyone help with this, ID, date, composition, approx. value? Diameter 25mm, thickness 2.5 mm, weight 11.10g approx. It appears to have the numbers 988 at the bottom on both sides but that's as much as I can discern. No attempt to clean it yet. Report this Post to the Staff

svslav Pillar of the Community United States 2605 Posts	Posted 12/11/2009 9:36 pm Cannot be AH 988. That would be AD 1579, the coin would be much more crude. It looks to me that it could be from India. 988 may not be related to the date. I'll keep searching. Report this Post to the Staff
thai-vic Pillar of the Community Thailand 1509 Posts	Posted 12/11/2009 10:15 pm Thanks yet again svslav. I'll certainly go with that but I don't have a Krause 19c catalog. Looks like the edge design will assign it to a particular area? Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16831 Posts	Posted 12/11/2009 11:00 pm It does look Indian, but with the elaborate border like that, I'd have to say it's not a coin. It looks more like an Islamic "temple token". From my limited experience with the series, "988" is apparently a common (and fictitious) date on these, though most of the ones I've seen with that "date" are square. I couldn't find an example of exactly the same style on zeno.ru, but this one shows a similar "temple token" variation from the regular designs of actual coins, and a similar decorated edge. 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
molydeii Pillar of the Community Turkey 870 Posts	Posted 12/12/2009 03:15 am Guys, the writing is arabic. On the top it says "Allahumme salli ala ale" means "The God is Great and One" can't read the rest though, my Middle Arabic is limited and the coin doesn't show much detail in the photo. Report this Post to the Staff
drnsreedhar Pillar of the Community India 1995 Posts	Posted 09/15/2010 3:57 pm the top image reads shah jahan badsha and the lower one Kalima. Should be an Indian muslim temple token during the reign of the mughal shah jahan. Report this Post to the Staff
drnsreedhar Pillar of the Community India 1995 Posts	Posted 10/07/2010 3:50 pm The date written is 988 corresponding to 1579-1580AD. The legend Shah Jahan cannot be there at that time. He ruled from 1627 to 1658. Akbar, Shah Jahans's grand father was ruling India in 1579-80. Looks like a muslim temple token at Shah Jahan's time with a fictitious date or it could be forgery. The design on the border does not match with contemporary coin designs as well. Report this Post to the Staff
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