Hello,
I'm totally inexperienced with coins like that. I hope someone can give me information about these two coins
a)
b)
Thanks in advance to all the members who will dedicate a little of their time.
Hello pk72 many thanks for your reply . Do you know some books or websites to read some informations about this kind of coins?
Greetings from Italy
Andrea
Weights and diameters are needed to help with attribution.
If these are from the Gujarat Sultanate, which is possible, the best reference is "The Coins of the Indian Sultanates" by Goron and Goenka. It might also be possible to find them by entering India plus weight and diameter ranges, possibly plus the keyword Gujarat into the Zeno database advanced search (search.zeno.ru).
Dear Seeker55, you are right.
Coin a) 9,12 g - around 17x15 mm and 5 mm thickness. Copper I think
Coin b) 5,34 g - around 16 mm and more than 3 mm thickness
Thanks for your help
Kindly regards
Andrea
I tried to look for the book, but at the moment it costs too much for my pockets (in Italy 1890 euro)!
In Zeno's databse (really fantastic!) I searched for the coin a), but it's not easy! To my inexperienced eyes there are similarities (characters in the circle) also for coins of the Sultanate of Dehli
These coins are manually hammered.
In those days, the dies were not as strong as now, so they were regulary recut/remade.
So, many variations are not uncommon
Non est totum quod splendet ut aurum
Rijkdom bestaat niet uit het hebben van veel bezittingen, maar in het hebben van weinig behoeften
I would say yes, you have found a match for coin b) in the Zeno link listed. One side matches, the weight and diameter are close enough. The other side is very worn but looks consistent as far as I can tell from the photo. You can do a better comparison of the Zeno listing with the worn side using magnification and variations in lighting.
. Do you know some books or websites to read some informations about this kind of coins?