Can any one help me identify these coins?

The one with Chinese characters is about 10 degrees from upside down. The character at the far right is 5, but I can't make out the rest in that orientation.

 

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Your untrained eye is not so bad, because your coin almost certainly is a mughal mohar. Your coins however are much better calligraphy than the one you post here. I can barely read the inscriptions on this one. Your coin is another level altogether. I am fairly certain that it is the coin I referenced above. If you go to the American Numismatic web site and search the word Awrangzib, or search it under the number 1974.26.2728, then you will see a picture of it. Of course, I cannot be completely certain without a good photo of your original coin.

 

thanks, I shall post the photos pretty soon :kewl:

unfortunately i wasnt able to open the link you were helping me to get to. could u post the link ?

 

Go to the American Numismatics Society Collection Database at
http://numismatics.org/collection/accnum/list

Type 1974.26.2728 into the field "Accession Number"

Or to see a number of coins from the same ruler type "Awrangzib" into the field "Any Field" at the top.

Then click on button "Show Results".

 

thats the one.... thanks


does any one have a clue how much its worth ?
i was thinking about auctioning it ebay

 

Sorry, I have no idea of the value. You might try taking it to a coin shop and asking, or checking EBay or vcoins for similar items, although I don't see many gold coins for sale there, so it might take a while for the right items to come up. The coins are about 10 gms each, about 1/3 oz (1 oz = 31.103 gm) and the spot price of gold is around $1100, so the bullion value alone is at least $300 a piece.

http://www.vcoins.com/

 

more clearer pictures

more clearer pictures, please find the attached photos, they are alot clearer than posted earlier. this should help in identifying them better. please do share ur expertise

 

Those are much clearer! Clear enough to see that this is a Mughal coin of Aurangzeb. The top coin in your photo is the obverse. The coin is not perfectly struck, so some of the letters are cut off, but most of it can be read. On the first line is most of the name: Aurangzeb Alamgir. Just under these letters is a long horizontal line which makes up part of the word Shah. The date of the coin would be right here over the “g” of Aurangzeb, but the numbers on the photo are a little blurry. It looks like 108-?, which would be about the 1670s.

The next two lines state that this coin (sekeh) was struck in the world (dar jahan) like the shining moon (chu mehr monir). There is a translation of all these lines at the link I will provide below.

The reverse of your coin has the name of the mint and the regnal date. The mint is Shahjahanabad (Delhi) most of which can be read on the upper left of the coin. Unfortunately I cannot read the regnal date here. So the reverse would read "year xxx of prosperous reign minted In Delhi".

So if you put your coin next to some of the photos which I have linked to above, I think you may be able to see how the inscriptions match up even though some letters on the edges are cut off on coins. I hope that is some help, thank you for posting such an interesting coin.

http://www.neocollect.com/coll/90/?page=2#
lots of similar coins here with inscriptions and translations

 

thanks alot,when i had got the coin i was totaly clueless of whether it was indian or persian, i didnt know where to start. now i know where to come for information. thanks zuhara , ur the best

 

You are most welcome. I also have a Mughal coin, a silver one. Like yours it was a gift from a Muslim friend years ago. So I enjoyed looking into these and learning a little bit.