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<p>[QUOTE="KDD, post: 4110186, member: 110611"]The Indian coin may actually be 19th century, believe it or not:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://coinswalalala.blogspot.com/2013/11/bhonsala-rughuji-iii-1-paisa-ad-1818-56.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinswalalala.blogspot.com/2013/11/bhonsala-rughuji-iii-1-paisa-ad-1818-56.html" rel="nofollow">https://coinswalalala.blogspot.com/2013/11/bhonsala-rughuji-iii-1-paisa-ad-1818-56.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, I have seen the trishula symbol curve to one side at the bottom but not extend as far.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, I'm starting to doubt it is Islamic at all. It also makes sense of how it appeared in Britain to a metal detectoralist given India was a colony of Britain. Someone who served Britain inside India may have brought it back with him.</p><p><br /></p><p>So value wise, it seems like it is worth almost nothing. But historically, it does allow me to at least conceptualize what regions of India were like pre-colonization in terms of tribalism.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KDD, post: 4110186, member: 110611"]The Indian coin may actually be 19th century, believe it or not: [URL]https://coinswalalala.blogspot.com/2013/11/bhonsala-rughuji-iii-1-paisa-ad-1818-56.html[/URL] By the way, I have seen the trishula symbol curve to one side at the bottom but not extend as far. In fact, I'm starting to doubt it is Islamic at all. It also makes sense of how it appeared in Britain to a metal detectoralist given India was a colony of Britain. Someone who served Britain inside India may have brought it back with him. So value wise, it seems like it is worth almost nothing. But historically, it does allow me to at least conceptualize what regions of India were like pre-colonization in terms of tribalism.[/QUOTE]
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