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Indian Square Rupee And A Temple Token? | Two Temple Tokens

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I have a couple Of Indian coins here, and I have tried without luck to ID them.

The circular one I know I have seen before, and I have a suspicion was a temple token, although I might be wrong.

The square piece I am fairly confident is a rupee, I have found many similar but none exactly the same. Any thoughts or info appreciated.

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I have a very similar one to the square one and have looked through the Krause discs all the way back to 1600 for India and all of the countries that use cyrillic writing with no luck either. I am very curious to see who might know something.
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Hi,

These are both Temple tokens - not coins.
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Agreed; both are Islamic "temple tokens" - Indian religious charms. The square one superficially resembles a square rupee of Mughal emperor Akbar from the 1600s but it has no date or mint-name - just naming Mohammed and the Four Caliphs on one side, and a Koranic text on the other.

Curiously, the square one has an "error" in the Caliph's names: if you look at the names in the bottom left and bottom right corner, the two words are identical: Ali is in the top-right, Uthman is in the top left, and the one named twice is Umar - but Abu Bakr, the first Caliph, is forgotten. I'd imagine that sort of thing would ruin it's usefulness as either a religious charm or as a "reminder" of the core of the faith.
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