Hey World coin collectors. Trying to help out a fellow collector for this coin. It's out of my level of expertise. Thinking that it from India possibly. ?? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I hope a World collector can tell us what those things are. Or if it's even a coin. They look like a bunch of confused spermazota to me.
The coin is Persia issued by Shah Naser al-Din Shah (1848-1896). The coin is either a 1/2 qiran (2.5 gm) or 1 qiran (5 gm) depending on weight. I can not find a date on the coin. Numista catalog: https://en.numista.com/432026 https://en.numista.com/57423
Arabic calligraphy. Beautiful in its own way. (Both the pics of the coin in the OP are upside-down.) Many Islamic coins display aniconism: they avoid images of living beings like people or animals (though you will sometimes see plants). So instead of pictorial designs, they used elaborate calligraphy like that. This is my sole example of a script-only Islamic coin. It also happens to be from Persia (Iran). In this case, a gold toman from AH1233 (1818/1819 AD).
