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Help - Indian Rupee Copper/Nickel?! Fake? | Temple Token

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 Posted 01/22/2010  11:20 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add bobo13 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi, what do you think about this coin - buying as silver but after test - it is not solid silver. Maybe copper/nickel? Hard coin similar to copper nickel. There is no silver content.
What do you think about coin, help me...
10.9 grams/ 19/19/3 mm

Help---Indian-Rupee-Copper/Nickel?!-Fake?-|-Temple-Token

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 Posted 01/22/2010  4:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add svslav to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I haven't found a match in either 1800's or 1900's Krause. Could this be any older than that, in such nice condition? Or, maybe, it just pretends to be a coin?
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Similar coins are sold on ebay as silver rupees from 16 century - India, with 11 grams weight and 20-21/20-21 mm measure (I think). But this maybe is fake 20 century made copper/nickel...
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 Posted 01/23/2010  01:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, sadly, this is not a genuine Indian coin, and probably not made of silver. It's an Islamic "temple token", made in imitation of the square silver coinage of Mughal emperor Akbar. The "date" on your coin is a badly mangled "963", which was the year Akbar came to power (= AD 1556) but your "coin" would not be as old as that; these temple tokens are typically 20th or late 19th century concoctions.

See this Zeno page for several examples of such "temple tokens"; compare these designs with genuine square rupees of Akbar by clicking here on this Zeno page and finding coins like this one.
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 Posted 01/23/2010  04:27 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bobo13 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you very much for the help. Refund for the "silver" rupee received...
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