It imitates a denarius of Septimius Severus. Perhaps the seller calling it a token of India is his way of calling it a fake. I had a very nice, original one a few months ago, toned to a lovely jet black...
So many fakes or misleading 'headings' on eBay..... One referred to his wares as "plata' and no other reference to replicas but what he 'meant' was plated modern replicas. The OP is as fake as they come.
You're saying that bizarre item is actually a genuine ancient Indian imitative token??? And not some modern reproduction?? I guess I'll never touch any of the type, I can't tell a fake from the genuine article LOL
Plata actually means silver in Spanish as opposed to the "plated" that it might look like at first glance.
I've actually seen this one. I have a saved search on ebay for "token" in the ancient coins category, in hopes of catching some under-cataloged tesserae. But all it gives me is garbage Indian temple tokens and horribly fake Chinese.
There were some AV coins in CNG auction from Adams coll. that were Indian copies of Roman Aurei, they were pretty bad imitations....but were genuine. With so called "Temple Tokens", Spink had one from Dehli Sultan Sher Shah Suri in EF, it sold for 900 UK Pounds!
I think what John was saying is that yes, it is Indian, and yes, a 'token' of sorts. But not ancient. Likely made last month. There are TONS of them on Ebay these days. Even the Chinese are now making silly copies of European ancient coins. They are all over the place.
