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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3241600, member: 82322&quot;]I realize this is the Ancients Forum but I will post a modern coin anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a YN I coveted a brockage Lincoln cent.&nbsp; We never saw bockages in the 1970s, even at shows.&nbsp; They were the stuff of books, not something to own.&nbsp; I imagined that anyone, in any era, would recognize a brockage and keep it aside.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet in the ancient world brockages must not have been coveted.&nbsp; We found them with significant wear.&nbsp; I was also surprised that ancient brockages don&#039;t command a high premium on the collector market.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found a modern circulated brockage from Nepal in a dealers junk try a few years ago.&nbsp; I started looking around and learned that there are modern circulated brockages out there, although not many.&nbsp; This one might be interesting to readers here:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]848660[/ATTACH]</p><p>Manghit/Amirs of Bukhara, AR tenga, Bukhara, No date (circa 1900), &#039;Abd al-Ahad, 15.5mm, 3.13g</p><p>Album 3042?, KM #63? (Uzbekistan, Khanate of Bukhara)</p><p>Obv: Persian (Tajik) inscription naming mint; uncertain date</p><p>Rev: incuse of obverse</p><p>cf. Zeno Late Central Asia » <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=1108" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=1108" rel="nofollow">Amirs of Bukhara</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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