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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TuckHard, post: 3776009, member: 102653&quot;]Hey all! Here is a coin that I received last week. I first posted it over in the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/2-buck-struck.347867/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/2-buck-struck.347867/">2 Buck Struck</a> thread in World Coins but I wanted to share it here, too.</p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1009290[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">AE Broad Fals | 30mm | 5.61g</p> <p style="text-align: center">403 AH (1012-1013 AD)</p> <p style="text-align: center">Mahmud of the Ghaznavid Dynasty</p> <p style="text-align: center">Bust Mint, present day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashkargah" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashkargah" rel="nofollow">Lashkargah</a>, SW Afghanistan</p> <p style="text-align: center">Album 1614</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was browsing eBay last week when I saw a lot of five Indian coins for under $4. Catching my eye, I clicked in to see that three were common post-1945 copper pieces but one was an Arabic princely state and one was this. The photos were awful and I didn&#039;t expect the two pieces to be much but I&#039;ve been trying to get better with Arabic coins and figured it could be a fun piece. I posted it in a FB group and someone was able to quickly help ID it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is very rare piece that does not commonly appear. The &quot;Broad Fals&quot; name is used to differentiate the pieces that are 30-35mm from the more common Fals that measure around 20-30mm. Stephen Album writes &quot;the very broad fulus of Bust were never well struck, and most surviving examples are unpleasantly worn, damaged, or corroded&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting tibit of information I found while researching this piece is that is was issued under the first Sultan. As in, Sultan Mahmud was the first ruler across the Islamic world to use the title.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=5726" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=5726" rel="nofollow">Here is the Zeno category</a> of which my coin belongs. Below is an auction from Album where a similar AE Broad Fals from Bust, 403 AH sold for $110.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1009291[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">Bonus!</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1009292[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center">Mystery coin that was also in the coin lot. It looks to be Arabic or Persian, perhaps, and weighs 4.06g. Measures to about 17mm square end or 21mm at the longest.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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