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

Some nice Arabic calligraphy in this.

Golden Horde
Issued under Toqtamish
1383-1384 CE | 785 AH
Qrim Mint
AR Dang | 1.41g | 17mm
Ref: See Z#246428​

 

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Early Chaghatayid AR Dirham - Kaiyalyq, 660's AH

 

2015 Thai 10 baht. I kind of like living in a different country where every day I have something like this as pocket change.

 

Gwalior Pice circa 1890 with a superb Cobra's head motif and plenty of (to me) indecipherable lettering!

 

304-316 Western Satraps AR drachm, Rudrasima II. There are guys on zeno.ru who can read this script and help attribute such coins. I rely on them extensively.

 

I had a fun time trying to make sense of mine, definitely an odd script style. I wish the portrait was as good as your example though!

Western Kshatrapas
Rudrasena IV
383-388 CE
AR Drachm | 1.46g​

 

A mix here. No latin though..

Sinkiang Half Miscal, Yarkand

 

Sri Lanka, 1236-1271 Parakrama Bahu II AE massa. I must assume that some of those marking on there are script in some archaic language.

 

Bhutan with both Latin and non-latin on it. Does anyone know if it says the same thing on both the top and bottom of the obverse?

 

This one looks like something J.R.R.Tolkien would have conjured up as coinage from Hobbiton

Georgia - 2 Abazi, 1810

 

Here is an odd mix of interesting Chinese calligraphy and some nice geometric motifs.

Bangka Island
1710 - 1816 CE
Chinese Tin Mining Community
Layang (Lazang) in Songai Liat
Private Tin Cash Token
Obv: Shun Ji (right-left)
Rev: Groups of 5 dots in a quasi floral pattern, double loop rings left and right
Ref: Hartill's GCC #3.268​

 

I like that coin. I found a seller in Indonesia that had a few for sale in late March. They got stuck in the local postal system eventually returned to the sender.

 

2006 Nepal 2 rupee

 

Cooch Behar - Rupee, SE 1509 (1587) KM 45

 

That's a bummer! I really like them and would like to put together a better set someday but their prices are pretty steep for my collection. I love the crowded beautiful Arabic legend on this one.

Sultanate of Rum
Three Brothers Period
1252 CE | 650 AH
AR Dirham | 2.76g 23mm
Sivas Mint​

 

1393 Mamluk AE falus. From what my mentors at zeno.ru tell me, "Mint and date are read almost completely." I look online and it seems to be Egypt, who ever was the current top boss there.

 

Another that certainly requires Zeno attribution

Semirech'e cash-like coin, Qarluq Qaghanate

 

Sri Lanka
2x 1 Cent
1965
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Ilkhanid Ghazan Mahmud (AH694-703) 2 dirhams, Bazar mint, AH699

 

my favorite squiggley character coin