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Hi, help me please: all 4 are metal detecting, looks with silver content. Weight: 1-11.3gr(looks date 913) 2-11.5gr 3-12.3gr 4-14.5gr ~ What do you think - all indian rupees maybe? Whether they have any value above the price of silver (scrap)? Thanks.    Identified - moved to Exonumia forum - Sap |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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1 is Mughal, agree dated AH913
2 and 3 I think are temple tokens, both have the names of the four caliphs around the edge.
Am lost with no.4 :(
All worth more than melt - to the right person.
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06/06/2011 2:11 pm
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Australia
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bobo13: I notice you are from Bulgaria. Interesting! From where were they recovered with the metal detector? I am curious as to how Indian coins came to be found in Eastern europe, although Roman coins have been found in India.
Roughly AUD $50 each for first three. At 14.5 grammes for the fourth one, you have a scarce 'heavy rupee'. Mughal, possibly AUD $100 for that, if genuine.
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sel_69l:
thanks for the information.
Coins are from UK seller registered 10 years ago, looks selling "metal detector" mostly and serious seller, and described coins "metal detector", I think all four are genuine but not sure of origin: UK or India.
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United Kingdom
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It is very unlikely they were dug up in the UK, more likely that they have been smuggled out of India (where anything you find you have to give to the authorities, for very little reward and a whole lot of hassle!)
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India
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Top line on the right hand side image of the first coin reads "bahman". Name of the ruler is written something like "Jalal din Akbar Badshah".The date is 913AH. All these do not fit together into a mughal coin.Akbar ascended throne later than 960AH.Bahman is the name of a month of the Ilahi regnal year initiated by Akbar. So in all likelihood, this is a crude imitaltion of Akbar coin executed at a later period than AD 1556 and probably should have been used as a token. All the others are tokens by all means.
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I wouldn't trust temple tokens to actually be made of silver. Older ones often are, but more modern ones usually are not. These all have a greenish-brown colour to them which makes me assume there's little if any silver in these coins.
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