"Follow The Leader" coin thread BY THEME (for ALL types of coins, tokens, and medals)

Palembang - Li Poh, 1450 to 1470

 

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Some other shots of Palembang tokens. I probably have about two hundred that I have not fully sorted out and identified using the Frank Robinson publication. Very few varieties.




Retrograde...





This one looks like copper or brass but I'm convinced it's tin

 

There's some great contrast in these! I bought a thousand Palembang pitis and looked through them a year or two back. Definitely tedious but it was a fun time and I found dozens and dozens of distinctly unique and unlisted varieties.

Palembang Sultanate
Dated 1789 CE (1203 AH) but likely produced for some years after
Issued under Sultan Muhammad Bahaudin
Contemporary counterfeit, displays crude and illegible Arabic
Unlisted but most similar to FSR#9.50


Palembang Sultanate
Dated 1789 CE (1203 AH) but likely produced for some years after
Date incorrectly reads "023" rather than "1203"
Issued under Sultan Muhammad Bahaudin
Contemporary counterfeit
Unlisted variety of FSR#9​

 

I will have to remember to consult you guys if I come up with any more tin pitis. I have a number of coins of this sort Gupta and Post Gupta (ca. 400-800 AD), also Western Satraps (~200-400 AD).

 

I need to get myself a better Western Satraps sometime here but until then this one will do. As horrendous the obverse is, I do like the reverse.

Silver Drachm
383-388 CE
Western Kshatrapas of India
Issued under Rudrasena IV​

 

I must say, this thread has presented some mighty interesting coins in the last few days, many from the areas that are close to my numismatic heart, like the Qarakhanids, Samanids and other Central Asian dynasties and periods.

The Samanids issued some models of harmony in their day (the 9th and 10th century AD), like this copper fals of the year 280 AH = 893/894 AD. Large, thin coins closely following Abbassid examples. (By the way, a handy calendar converter for the Christian and Islamic calendars might be found here at Zeno, the great Oriental Coins Database.



AE fals Samanids, Ismail b. Ahmad (892-907), Samarqand, 280H = 893 AD. 25 mm, 4.51 gr.

 

Dutch India
Negapatnam Mint
1695 CE
1/2 Duit
KM#25​

 

Abbasid Caliphate - Harun Al-Rashid, AH191

 

I've got two of these lovely things, I love the bull depiction. One of them also has a killer blue-grey patina.

Ghurid Dynasty
1206-1215 CE
AE Jital
Issued under Tay al-Din Yildiz
Kurraman Mint
Ref.: Tye 200​

 

Assam - Rupee, SE1670 1748AD

 

A small silver coin from 14th century Venice:

AR soldino, Venice, Giovanni Dolfin (1356-1361). Obv. Kneeling Doge with staff. Rev. Lion of St. Mark. 16 mm, 0.55 gr.

 

1695 Negapatnum, Dutch India, AE 1 duit. Stylized image of Kali on obverse, or is it Shiva?

 

Yabghu Of Tokharistan - Hormizd IV type, 7th century

 

Wow that's really something! I love the punch-mark (or countermark?)!

Malacca Sultanate
1456-1477 CE
1/2 Pitis; 0.92g
Issued under Sultan Mansur Shah
Ref.: SS03​

 

1660-1720 VOC 1/2 stuiver, possibly Jaffna mint, Scholten 1291e

 

Zangids of Mosul - Qutb al-Din Mawdud,544-564AH 1149-70AD

 

1783 VOC Sri Lanka - Galle, 1 stuiver dump

 

China - Jungarian khanate copper pul. Galdan Cheren, Yarkand, 1727-1745 A.D.

 

Palembang Sultanate
Tin Pitis; 0.46g 13mm
1779 CE (1193 AH)
Issued under Sultan Muhammad Bahaudin
This example is a crude contemporary counterfeit and it displays a sloppy script style and the date reads "1113" rather than "1193"
Unlisted variety of FSR#5​

 

1715-1835 French India AE Doudou