Nepal 1 Dam - Rana Bahadur Shah, 1777-1799. Makes me wonder why they even bothered minting such flimsy coins! Thin as a foil, looks like a confetto! I got this from ebay described as an 'unknown ancient coin'.
Neat. They do seem ridiculously impractical though, don't they. I'd also never seen the singular form "confetto" used in a sentence before.
Interesting coin but what was the point? I'm curious how many of those it took to buy anything substantial like say, a loaf of bread or whatever the daily staple was.
The only coin that ever stuck to my finger! just imagine how many of them would've been lost from simply blown by the wind. And for the word confetto, thanks for tbbt! at 2:30 sec
I'm pretty sure the Nepalese had rice as their stable, and cooked rice is one of the cheapest food out there, even cheaper than bread! so I guess this coin would've payed for a bowl of breakfast rice or a dumpling! And they also issued gold coins with the same dimensions! some are going for nearly $200 on ma-shops! https://www.ma-shops.com/shops/sear...2&catid=6&submitBtn=Search&lang=en&PHPSESSID=
Fanams at least have that "thick and blobby" thing going for them, even if they're no larger around than a lentil bean. But if they were wafer-thin hammered pieces like this... whoa. In regard to fanams, and now this little confetto of a thing, I have often daydreamed about how many dusty old roads in India (or Nepal) are full of these dinky little things after they got lost. It might make swinging a detector rather interesting, though they wouldn't give much of a signal. A detector definitely would sound off on them, however, though it would be an iffy, low-range sort of signal, most likely, particular if the coin had acquired any depth in the ground.
Nepal is fun to collect, and many coins are quite affordable. Plus they use a different calendar, so you can look like a time traveler. Below: Coin from 2092? Actually 2012 = 1955 AD.
