India

Madras Presidency Silver Rupee (minted in the name of Shah Alam I in Chinapatan in either 1711 or 1712):

 

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Madras Presidency Silver Rupee (minted in the name of Shah Alam I in Chinapatan in either 1711 or 1712):

 

Madras Presidency Gold Mohur (minted in Madras in 1819):

 

Gupta Gold Dinar of Samudragupta (minted sometime between 335 and 375):

 

Gupta Gold Dinar of Skandagupta (minted sometime between 455 and 467):

 

Yadavas of Tribhuvanagiri Gold 1/2 Dinar of Kumara Pala (minted sometime in the 1190s)

 

One I was lucky to pick up in a large random collection

A Zodiac Leo Rupee, Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal, if I remember right. From a few years ago

 

Sultanate of Gujarat Gold 1/5 Tanka of Qutb al-Din Bahadur Shah (minted in either 1535 or 1536):

 

Looking for a bit of advice on this one - I think it is an 19th to early 20th century temple token in the style of a square Rupee of Akbar the Great. This one a bit underweight at 10.65g 21x21 mm. The obverse reading Muhammad with the names of the four righteous califs in corners. not sure what to make of the GM on the reverse? the rest of the text seems like a stylized:
لا إله إلا الله
محمد
رسول الله
I can't quite make out the text:


tokens were issued in the 18th and 19th century India for use as temple tokens as using British coins was undesirable? Interested if anyone knows more.

 

This is another interesting coin - the motif on the left could be (reverse?) The Royal Coat of Arms of Awadh: two fish (the Mahi Maratib symbol) with human upper bodies supporting a crown and parasol.

This suggests tthat this is a 12.1 gram falus or paisa of the Princely State of Awadh (Lucknow Mint) the details don't match any other coin that I can find - the two attendants in the "royal crest" do not have the typical mermaid tail.

Ruler: Muhammad Ali Shah. AH 1253-1258 / AD 1837-1842
Denomination: Falus (Copper)


found it: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.97296/page/n123/mode/2up

 

Nice. Have a look at this page. I use zeno more than anything else for my old India coins. https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=15625

 

Recently purchased a small hoard (~300) of these that a dealer in India was handling. Story is that a member of a Royal Family was quietly selling off quantities of silver and gold coins that had been in the family since they were minted.

The entire hoard of these Fanams were bright white with frosty surfaces. Just like you'd expect when they were fresh off the dies 90 years ago.

Grades just posted today with almost all the coins graded MS65 or MS66.

The coin itself is somewhat scarce. A one year type with a mintage of only 350,000.

 

Awadh
AV Ashrafi AH 1266/4
Lucknow Mint
Wajid Ali Shah