This may prove more difficult than my last post as the coin is in very rough shape. Please find some digital images below. Hoping to find an expert who may be able to shed some light on this mysterious coin. SRSNUM
Wild guess? Medieval. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, maybe. Disclaimer: that is a mostly-uninformed wild guess, with nothing to back it up, since I do not really know.
It is in pretty bad shape. I'm looking for numbers that I might recognize but I don't see anything that looks like numbers. I'm wondering if the writing could be in Sanskrit from the Indian area. or Hindi. I don't recognize anything on it.
I think it's less a case of being in bad shape than the fact that it was rather primitively made in the first place.
I think it's probably both. I don't see anything that I recognize as numbers. I can't read any of those languages, only Arabic and Japanese numbers. Sometimes the stampings are so twisted that I may not even recognize a number as a number.
Thanks to Hookman and lordmarcovan for their efforts. It appears that this coin continues to resist attribution. The mystery continues...
Keep watching. There are other members with more expertise on these types of coins. They may just be busy at the moment. Maybe : @ewomack @Stork @Hiddendragon @PaddyB
Countermark is "Sultan" and the host possibly a post-Mongolian dynasty in the region of Iran. Mint above the square looks like "Wastan" and the date is 7x2.
