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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2298763, member: 19463"]The price seems fair for not great condition but these usually are not. I'd say VG if I had to say but I do not like letter grades without a paragraph of explanation. Mitchiner is a three volume set of huge books on Asian coins (Ancient - ACW or Ancient and Classical World to 650 AD, Non-Islamic and the rest - Islamic and modern - I don't have that one). People make fun of the set as dated in some sections but it has more coins in it than you can imagine. Many are terrible and still better than some you see. I see your square as correct at 4378 but 4348 is another square coin of the same type but not so degraded. The things were made and imitated for a couple hundred years and I'm not expert enough to separate. Your round looks like 4371-4373 to me. Mitchiner shows several specimens of many coins with no distinctions between them. chrsmat's Sunga is a 4366-4370 which is like yours but lacks the rider.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2298763, member: 19463"]The price seems fair for not great condition but these usually are not. I'd say VG if I had to say but I do not like letter grades without a paragraph of explanation. Mitchiner is a three volume set of huge books on Asian coins (Ancient - ACW or Ancient and Classical World to 650 AD, Non-Islamic and the rest - Islamic and modern - I don't have that one). People make fun of the set as dated in some sections but it has more coins in it than you can imagine. Many are terrible and still better than some you see. I see your square as correct at 4378 but 4348 is another square coin of the same type but not so degraded. The things were made and imitated for a couple hundred years and I'm not expert enough to separate. Your round looks like 4371-4373 to me. Mitchiner shows several specimens of many coins with no distinctions between them. chrsmat's Sunga is a 4366-4370 which is like yours but lacks the rider.[/QUOTE]
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