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or a clump of mud? I remember buying this when I was about 8 or 9 at a local flea/farmers market. It was labeled as "unidentified ancient coin"

Is it really a coin? or just a fake? Does anybody recognize it? I don't know if one side has a sword on it and the other side is either an eye w/ lashes or a sun w/ rays. Are both sides the same? It kind of looks like it but the "rays" are different. I meant to scan it with a dime to show the comparison in size but forgot.....

It's about the size of a dime.

Thanks in advance!! :)



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 Posted 06/03/2011  10:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Fuzzy317 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
hopefully the experts of ancient coins will be along, but it does have the appearance of a coin.

(when I first typed that I had "ancient coin experts" but thought I better change that
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haha! good you caught that before anyone else.

I'm hoping to find out more on it. it would be awesome if it was a genuine coin.
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I believe it is a coin, though I'm not so sure about "ancient". I haven't found a very good match, but I've found a few possible leads:

- The one "ancient" coin type this resembles is the "anchor" prutah of Jewish king Alexander Jannaeus, often sold as a "Widow's Mite".

- The Turks and Mongols often put a tribal symbol known as a "tamgha" on their coins; this one has a trident-in-circle shaped tamgha.

- Some Afghan copper coins have tri-lobed designs in a cartouche of some kind; example.

- The Sunface symbol on the coinage of the Indian state of Indore (example) can can get a bit stylized, though I'm not quite sure if it gets quite this much stylized.
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 Posted 06/04/2011  09:41 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pls to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I would agree with Sap that this one includes some elements of a widow's mite, and I would suggest starting your research with this coin in mind. They are fairly common and not expensive, and it's not unlikely that an example would have popped up in a flea market back in the day.
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awesome! :) thanks guys! I'm excited that it may be a real coin. i'll check into it more. it's hard to make out many details on it though. so it sort of seems that i'll only ever be able to speculate what it may be.

thanks again!
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It looks very much like a coin. The upper image shows a figure that sounds like a "trident" to me which signifies a medieval Indian origin.
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