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Message:: [QUOTE="Bardolph, post: 26526197, member: 96174"]I can't find your coin in my 1971 edition of British Commonwealth Coins, in the pages on Indian Native States. As to the price, why not sell it at the price you paid for it plus your usual margin? If afterwards it turns out to have been a very rare coin, well, you will have made a profit and you have very likely made a very, very happy collector. Many years ago - i,e in the 60's and 70's, I used to buy English coins in Spain and Spanish coins in England, preferably as far away from London as possible. This was a great way to buy coins from small local dealers who did not necessarily have all the info to hand. I still regret not buying a 1905  Edward VII half crown in Sevilla for a few pesetas. I knew that there were forgeries, about but I should have risked it Now  of course we have the internet, Numista and all the other coin sites as well as the full details (prices, photos, condition etc) from numerous public auctions.  As a result, I feel that a little of the spice and joy of finding a coin where the dealer has not done his homework has disappeared, but I did recently pick up in Barcelona, for a song, a French 5 centimes, 1875K, in at least EF. The  dealer had obviously thought that there was no need to check the mintage for that year, only 760,000! His loss, my gain![/QUOTE]