Here's a couple of later `sardula' type coins from Mysore (KM193.2) from 1836 and 1841. [img] [img]
....no sooner said . This one being a 25 cash (KM187) issued 1799 - 1810. ;) [img]
Jetons is my `thing', not that i'm any expert. Just an expert amateur in the making ;). Here's one of my one's in silver from the `Kings Counsel'...
Thanks for that. :) I couldn't see the wood for the trees (or differentiate one elephant from another in this case). :) I've now located it in...
The thumbnails I posted in my last post are of the one I can't identify. If you click on them they should enlarge. The one I have already...
These are verey nice coins indeed !! I've only got two ephelunt coppers from Mysore. My others are the Sardula type. One of them is an undated...
It's a jeton issued for the `Kings Counsel', the king in this case being Louis XIV of France. The obverse legend should read Nil Nisi Consilio...
True. Fascinating stuff! i don't have any `dump' coins from travancore, but I do have a few cash coins and chuckram. I'll try to scan them later...
My first thought was spanish copper maravedis but i could be way off the mark. I'm not able to check that out though at this time.
I don't the ones i've posted are particularly rare or `valuable'.....at least not in cash terms. I just find it interesting to note that they have...
I've mainly tried to stick to silver coins but with India i made an exception being intrigued by some of the copper coinages of the Princely...
I haven't actively collected any euro coins, with the exception of the Austrian niobium 25 euros. Even then i lost interest after last years...
Not so Aidan. The Privy mark for the Engraver General (common to all mints in 1855) was either a Dogs head or an Anchor. This is because in that...
......I didn't think so either. That's why I said `five (cinq) centimes in my first post. Besides which, the `Q' is very prominent.:kewl:
Unless the poster is very small and has incredibly dainty little fingers there should be no doubt that it is a five centimes piece. It is far too...
The pics certainly aren't in good shape. Unfortunately, neither is the coin. A mixture of the images ....and wear / damage to the coin prevents a...
Ka-chiiiinnnnng! I bought a coin from a dealer at the same price he valued it at five years previously. He had refused an offer I made at that...
For some reason the old brain synapses didn't quite click onto the presence of the cornucopia under the eagle on the example posted. My mind was...
Rauch are THE people for dealing with the coin type. Anyone else (myself included) is just going to be second guessing them and their knowledge of...
For goodness sake Aidan get your specs on .... the coin purports to come from BRESLAU thaler, not Burgau. BIG difference. It is listed in...
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