well dear friends my blog indiacoins.org has gone live. Its a blog and You will get free consulting advice on indian coins and other coins if you so desire. Anyways its very hard to live on 0 income so i thought this would be a good way to promote the hobby. So i would appreciate if you guys stop by with any questions that you may have. I will also be posting high res pics and stories about indian coins over there. I hope this post doesnt violate any rules that wasnt my intention nor is it my intention to drag anyone away from CT. Thanks
I have a question regarding Indian coins. Why are Indian proof sets so expensive?, I know that the prices in Kraus Catalog are not accurate, but I do not understanding selling for more than 10 times the catalog price! Good luck with your blog
I'll answer this because I recently sold 20 sets at crazy prices. By recently, I mean almost two years ago lol. A lot of Indians, especially those in the U.S. now have much more money then ever before. They are still very traditional when it comes to their heritage and want to preserve things like coins and artifacts. Much similar to what is happening with Chinese coins and antiques. I couldn't believe how many messages I received from various people asking if I had anymore sets.
Thanks for the replies. I just missed an auction which had 3 x India sets + 5 others, estimate was 50-80 $ .. Ouch ..
not really they have too much money and they dont have a clue what to spend it on so they spend on everything coins are just one of those things.
Thanks. You guys will be transported 100 years or so in the past. mules, restrikes, clashed dies, errors, edge varieties, die varieties, you name it and its out there so it will be like the 1800's revisited. Plus you will get to read my depression ending humor.
Is this color on an 1858 1/4 Anna is common? I just got this East India Company coin. I bought it for the bright red color. Can you tell me how often this coin is found with red color? I have never come accross one but I haven't personally seen that many Indian coins from the mid 1800s.
not very often with red color. but the best place to find this coin in red color would be usa if i had to pick one country. very nice. in fact very very nice.
Hello Spock1k, I received this coin as a gift from a fellow traveler while on an airplane someplace over the USA. The man that gave it to me was from India and he said it was a “Silver Dhaka”. That was more than 10 years ago & I still have not been able to accurately attribute this coin. The only reference books that I have are my Standard Catalogs of World Coins covering the dates from 1800 to present. The photo depicts the coin in a 2x2 holder normally used to hold a US quarter. Since the quarter would normally be 24.26 mm, I would guess that the diameter of this unknown coin is about 21.8 mm. It is probably twice as thick as a US quarter. If it is necessary to know a more precise weight & dimension, then I could measure it the next time I visit the coin. Do you know this coin? Very best regards, collect89
he probably meant silver tanka and not dhaka unless he was from dhaka. it looks more like a mogul silver rupee to me. unfortunately it would take weeks for me to attribute the coin. i am not a native reader of this script. i know this doesnt help you too much but probably you can see this in the world coin catalog under mogul section
Out of curiosity how come Indian government mint doesn't issue any Bullion even though India is largest consumer of gold?
i would say thank god for that. they do a pretty shoddy job issuing whatever they do issue. if anything they should be looking to trim down their product offerings and allow indians to buy bullion coins from all over the world without hassles
