There are alot of Oriental pieces I can not find anything at all on. ( I cant read this stuff) I have found some that were obvious like Vietnam though. Anyway, I will continue posting until I get through this small box that I have yet to identify. I am still looking though! Thanks again to all who are assisting me with this little project.
Once again Thank you.. This site amazes me. Do you know this stuff or am I missing something when I am looking?
We have members around the world, fluent in many, many languages. Others of us have specialized in coins of a particular country or countries - sometimes for decades. Many of us are also adept at using the various identification aids provided in the Standard Catalog of World Coins. In other words the forum members as a group either "know this stuff" or - perhaps more importantly - know from experience how to find out. You're not missing anything that considerably more experience wouldn't help you find. My specialty is Japanese milled coinage, and I know a lot more about other oriental coins than I do about European or African stuff, but I was just as ignorant as you were about your questioned coin until Drusus responded. :thumb:
Jim, Collecting World Coins by Krause is a great source for world coins! I think some of these guys have all the coins both modern and ancient memorized :bow: but for the rest of us, this is a good starting point for modern world coins. Darryl
must of what you have posted are pretty common modern world coins and I have simply seen a large amount of them and recognize at least the country when I see one....with the coder token I happened to collect them as well so I am familiar with most of them and the one you had was common (I wrote the wiki article for conders ). Like was said...its just a matter of looking at a lot of coins over the years.
By the way...one way to get better at it is to get familiar with the writing...You have a Thai Baht...look at the writing on that coin and the style...Once you have seen one Thai coin...you will probably have little problem recognizing MOST thai coins after that (its easy because they have had the same king, King Rama IX, for the last 60+ years...This goes the same for a lot of modern coins. Many of them stick with the same themes and styles and the writing and characters are similar...like if you see greek on a modern coin...that can only be a coin from a few countries. middle east coins get a bit tricky but again...many countries stick to common themes so when you see one, it helps in recognition of others from that country...
It's already identified correctly by KM #. On obverse the top line reads "Subh Rajya Bhishekh" translates to "pleasing coronation of king". Below crown, the name of country is written "Nepal" and the bottom line reads the king name "Shri 5 Mahendra Vir Vikram ShahDev". The reverse image is upside down. The legends inside circle reads, "Shri Bhavani" and "Pachas Paisa". Bhavani is the goddess people worship in that region, hence her name on the coin. And the denomination mentioned as 50 Paisa. I believe this coin was issued for circulation and you don't see them in high grades. Regards Ballabh Garg
