Afghanistan silver

Discussion in 'World Coins' started by Ardatirion, May 19, 2010.

  1. Ardatirion

    Ardatirion Où est mon poisson

    All of my coin books are packed away, so I need some help with this one:

    From what I've seen elsewhere, its apparently an Afghani silver coin from the Kabul mint

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  3. dougsmit

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    I do not have a specialist book that late but it appears to match the Early World Coinage (Tye) 595 for Barakzai, Abd ur Rahman 1880-1901

    The date is on the obverse in the lower left corner and I see enough of it to feel good about 130x AH but I'm not picking up on the lat digit which is on the edge below the dot=zero.
     
  4. Ardatirion

    Ardatirion Où est mon poisson

  5. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

    1305 is what Tye showed in his drawing but I made a mistake looking at yours and thinking the dot above and right of the 3 was the 0 when the 0 was lower and off flan. The point is consistant with a 5. Not having a specialty book prevents knowing what other choices there are for the type. I felt lucky finding anything close in the book I have. Perhaps someone out there has a better book for modern. Shouldn't it be in Krause? (I've never owned one of them so I really don't know how deeply they cover such coins.)
     
  6. DCH

    DCH Member

    These are also dated at the top of reverse...looks like 1307?
     
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