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07/23/2011 3:09 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Here is another coin of Fakr ud din Mubarak Shah - 1358-1368 AD |
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United Kingdom
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Hi - I find all these threads useful ... Thanks very much for taking the time to contribute you knowledge and to try and teach us too ...
Malcolm
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@Bacchus2 : Thank you Malcolm for the post.  . I myself had faced the challenge of being unable to identify Indian coins at the beginning. I know the thrill of identifying a difficult one. And you tend to lose interest otherwise. I cannot forget the day I identified a coin that I got from a local riverbed, after six months of hard work.(It is one thousand years old - Raja Raja Chola,985-1015.AD). Anybody who loves Indian coins deserves to know whatever little I know. That is what these threads are for. I am extremely happy that many find them useful and enjoyable. My special thanks to you for telling that to me. These images that I post were taken a few years back and I have a few more of them to post. Two thirds of my holding are still pending imaging. I will surely share them as soon as they are ready. Thank you once again for the post.
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08/10/2011 12:14 am
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Pillar of the Community
India
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In the posts I could not mention the denomination of the coins. So I am posting the metrology of copper coins of the Madurai sultans here.
~1gm - 1/4 Tanka
~2gms - 1/2 Tanka
~3.5gms - 4.5gms - Tanka
Thanks.
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Pillar of the Community
India
1995 Posts |
The sultanate of Madurai was a tiny area in the southern India in and around the city of the present day Madurai. A map indicating the position of the city is posted here. The interesting coincidences are that this very small area remained a sultanate for a very short span of time of 44 years from 1333 to 1377.AD.  |
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Pillar of the Community
India
1995 Posts |
Here is the latest addition to my Madurai coins. This is a copper coin of Nasir ud din Mahmud Damghan. Obverse reads "Nasir ud dunya wa al din" and the reverse, "as sultan al azam". This is same as MD20, Goron and Goenka.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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A scarce coin of Fakhr ud din Mubarak  Date 767.AH is highlighted in blue  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks for posting this information. This is the kind of thing people look for and cannot find, now they can :)
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Thanks Numismat and Spence.
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Pillar of the Community
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There were eight rulers who reigned Madurai. We have coins of seven of them in this thread. Now here is a coin of the missing ruler, Qutb ud din Firoz.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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One more coin of Giyaz ud din Muhammad Damghan (1340-1344 AD)  |
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Legend of the above coin is highlighted below.  |
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