Posted 11/22/2006 02:59 am
Hi and welcome to the forum. Let's see if we can help.
My first instinct on seeing it was "Indian States", and they're notoriously hard to identify. You can make it easier by telling us a bit more about it: weight (if you can), diameter and composition - what it appears to be made of: silver or copper. Clearer pics might also help (by the way, both obverse and reverse in your pic appear to be upside down).
That being said, I can still offer some guesses. I think I can read "1106" as a date; if that's accurate, that would be AD 1694, during the Mughal period; Indian coinage was relatively centralised at that time, with several dozen mints making coinage of much the same design. There are some words on your coin which I can see in the examples illustrated in the catalogue for Shah Aurangzeb Alamgir (ruled 1658-1707 AD), but I'm not familiar enough with the series to say for certain. If its silver, it's either a rupee or half-rupee. The value would depend on whether a mint-name or mark was legible, and how common that mint is.
My first instinct on seeing it was "Indian States", and they're notoriously hard to identify. You can make it easier by telling us a bit more about it: weight (if you can), diameter and composition - what it appears to be made of: silver or copper. Clearer pics might also help (by the way, both obverse and reverse in your pic appear to be upside down).
That being said, I can still offer some guesses. I think I can read "1106" as a date; if that's accurate, that would be AD 1694, during the Mughal period; Indian coinage was relatively centralised at that time, with several dozen mints making coinage of much the same design. There are some words on your coin which I can see in the examples illustrated in the catalogue for Shah Aurangzeb Alamgir (ruled 1658-1707 AD), but I'm not familiar enough with the series to say for certain. If its silver, it's either a rupee or half-rupee. The value would depend on whether a mint-name or mark was legible, and how common that mint is.
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
