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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TuckHard, post: 3775636, member: 102653&quot;]I wanted to share this deal I recently got. Probably the best find in a couple years.</p><p>Price: $0.75 (lot of 5 for $3.75)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1009242[/ATTACH]</p><p style="text-align: center">AE Broad Fals | 30mm | 5.61g</p> <p style="text-align: center">403 AH (1012-1013 AD)</p> <p style="text-align: center">Mahmud of the Ghaznavid Dynasty</p> <p style="text-align: center">Bust Mint, present day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashkargah" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashkargah" rel="nofollow">Lashkargah</a>, SW Afghanistan</p> <p style="text-align: center">Album 1614</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>I was browsing eBay last week when I saw a lot of five Indian coins for under $4. Catching my eye, I clicked in to see that three were common post-1945 copper pieces but one was an Arabic princely state and one was this. The photos were awful and I didn&#039;t expect the two pieces to be much but I&#039;ve been trying to get better with Arabic coins and figured it could be a fun piece. I posted it in a FB group and someone was able to quickly help ID it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is very rare piece that does not commonly appear. The &quot;Broad Fals&quot; name is used to differentiate the pieces that are 30-35mm from the more common Fals that measure around 20-30mm. Stephen Album writes &quot;the very broad fulus of Bust were never well struck, and most surviving examples are unpleasantly worn, damaged, or corroded&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting tibit of information I found while researching this piece is that is was issued under the first Sultan. As in, Sultan Mahmud was the first ruler across the Islamic world to use the title.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=5726" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=5726" rel="nofollow">Here is the Zeno category</a> of which my coin belongs. Below is an auction from Album where a similar AE Broad Fals from Bust, 403 AH sold for $110.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1009261[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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