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<p>[QUOTE="THCoins, post: 2282733, member: 57364"]Nope, not Sultans of Delhi, not Mughal but much later.</p><p>My first guess however was wrong. Sorry i may have pointed in the wrong direction, But these are not always very easy. Now looking at another monitor than earlier today i see what the depiction in the right picture is supposed to be. You have to rotate the picture about 45 degrees clockwise. Then it shows a lion facing to the right. Above the lions back is the sun with a face in it (no joke). This is partly off flan. Now, lion with sunface immediately points away from India. First option now becomes Iranian civic copper, with again Afghanistan in second place.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: looking a bit further i find i may have seen this one before: The text side likely does not read "Falus", but the mint name. It think this is an Iranian Civic copper from Kashan mint, date around 1700-1750.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="THCoins, post: 2282733, member: 57364"]Nope, not Sultans of Delhi, not Mughal but much later. My first guess however was wrong. Sorry i may have pointed in the wrong direction, But these are not always very easy. Now looking at another monitor than earlier today i see what the depiction in the right picture is supposed to be. You have to rotate the picture about 45 degrees clockwise. Then it shows a lion facing to the right. Above the lions back is the sun with a face in it (no joke). This is partly off flan. Now, lion with sunface immediately points away from India. First option now becomes Iranian civic copper, with again Afghanistan in second place. Edit: looking a bit further i find i may have seen this one before: The text side likely does not read "Falus", but the mint name. It think this is an Iranian Civic copper from Kashan mint, date around 1700-1750.[/QUOTE]
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