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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;spiraltreet, post: 186780, member: 3476&quot;]I&#039;ve noted a lot of enquiries about the temple tokens. I&#039;ll try to share some of the knowledge I&#039;ve acquired about these magnifiscent works of art. I&#039;m afraid, a lot of tokens offered in eBay as British India coins were infact temple tokens. But what is disgusting is that about 90% of them are relatively new (created within 10 to 20 years) especially so if the token&#039;s reverse is having British India coins images and denomination. People are often fooled by these tokens. And you might have noticed their condition.. Almost all of these tokens offered in eBay are in UNC condition. Infact these tokens are minted in some parts of India and are distributed through various temples. This is one of the revenue sources of certain temples. Their actual value here in India is about 1$ to 2$. Nothing more. And you can get any number of them. But, there are certain tokens which are quite rare. But, even then, their price would be anywhere between 5$ to 20$. And 99% of these tokens are circulated among the devotees. So, there would be some signs of circulation. I&#039;ll be trying to post pictures of some of the old&nbsp; tokens. The most important deities feature in these tokens are Hanuman (monkey who helped God Rama), Rama and Sita, Krishna, Shiva, Kali etc.. The most common of them are Hanuman, Rama and Sita. Please note that some coins from the Princely State coins also have&nbsp; images of monkey. But, they (coins with the image of monkey)&nbsp; definitely wont feature any British India images or those of Rama and Sita. Here is an original brass token from the 19th C. I&#039;ll post more pictures in the coming days in this thread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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