Dear All, first of all apologies for the spam. I posted this in 'World Coins' a couple of weeks ago together with another coin, asking for any hints regarding identification. While the other one got feedback (and I now believe it to be a forgery), nobody said anything on this one - and I thought perhaps the 'ancient' section might be more lucky. Any help/hint is welcome. Thank you, Alex
Looks more like a spanish copper coin from 1300-1700 than anything Asian. If Asian, it is Southern Asian, not Oriental in my view.
If If is silver it would be a cob, hard to tell from the photo. Crude Spanish colonial coins where a bar of silver was typically cut into chunks of correct weight. They were then treated as if they were finished planchets and hammered between crude dies. The Spanish "cabo" refers to the end, which was probably a piece of silver clipped off the end of a bar. Looks like a crude Spanish colonial coin to me, but I’m no expert.
20-21 mm across at its largest. It's very irregular as you can see. Very thin. Copper i believe. I don't have a fine enough scale, but given the irregularity, i doubt it'd be helpful