That's so cool.. never seen those marks before.. and in excellent condition with sharp clarity to boot..
Malay States - Terengganu. 1907 Soon Teck Gongsi (Soon Teck guild/ Company). Tin Jokoh. Bearing Chinese, English and Jawi legends. Punchmarked...
Think of it as an equivalent of a modern coin in commemorative of some event. Chinese coinage predates this by hundreds of years when taking into...
Burma. Arakan kingdom. Silver Thanka, Bodawpaya, Amapur lord. AD 1784 Zeno. 104918 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thank you.. these are great specimens which you have. For Sri Lankan Ceylon else coins, Kushan Has some of the best pieces you can find and with...
It's a nice piece.. legitimate. Also I wouldn't worry too much about these memento dollars with a rosette star on the reverse..they are...
Thanks.. it was an old thread... but thanks for raising an interesting topic for discussion.... :)
Thank you.. but @Ancientnoob has an excellent trove of these :)
@Ancientnoob .. congrats man!!! You finally got yourself a winner Kushan Dinar there!! Excellent piece!!
The thread is a bit misleading.. I sense some satirical notes but in essence, these were real genuine trade currencies. .
If not mistaken, the koku Ridhi (fish hook) designs were indigenous to the Maldives, Ceylon "Kandy" in particular and parts of southern India....
CEYLONESE larin were technically all imitative. The originals originate from Persia but for reasons best known to the Kandyan Ceylonese and...
Sorry.. been AOL and missed this thread
Looks suspicious. . Also the angle and lighting does not provide good clarity. I would caution against it. A lot of fakes of these although...
Fake. Too light. They should weigh an equivalent of an American silver dollar. Also the material looks unreal. It should be 90% silver and the...
Welcome.. the price is ridiculous for an obvious fake. I sincerely advise against the following: 1) buying expensive silver dragons off eBay....
That coin in eBay is a bad fake. Firstly Jiangsu Was not known to have issued silver dollars. Secondly both the deemed location being different...
No worries.. welcome
Thanks Steve ;)
All the best.. But there are also different versions of the flathead ones too... The most common are the Ming ( not dynasty) knives...
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