Posted 09/29/2010 08:51 am
I'm afraid I can't tell you much abut it apart from, "It's Indian", and appears to be a medal won by or awarded to the company inscribed on the rim. My clumsy attempt at transliterating the Persian/Farsi script on the obverse yields something like "Bagh Harafabat Gatakadas" - I'm probably misreading more than a few letters, there, since I'm attempting to translate it from a 'How to Read Arabic Coins' book. "Harafabat" sounds suspiciously like an Indian-style name of a city, but I haven't found a likely candidate yet. If so, it's presumably a city either on or not far from one of the subcontinent's major rivers, given that a river steamship company has won the medal.
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
