Medieval Indian coins (most are from Muslim states)

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Good day all!

I have had some Indian coin topics lately, this dozen coins today will be my last ones for some time, I swear! 😄 They just proved to be tougher than I had anticipated. Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

1

Weight: 7,82g Diameter:1,8cm 

N#96631 SOLVED!

 

2

Weight: 5,10g Diameter:1,6cm 

N#39115 SOLVED!

 

3

Weight: 6,25g Diameter:1,8cm 

N#40648 SOLVED!

 

4

Weight: 3,74g Diameter:1,5cm

Numbers/date looks like (1)282/3? 

 

5

Weight: 4,56g Diameter:1,5cm 

 

6

Weight: 3,20g Diameter:1,3cm 

 

7

Weight: 4,32g Diameter:1,2cm 

https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=137857  (didn't find Ahmad Shah half falus on Numista) SOLVED!

 

8

Weight: 3,11g Diameter:1,3cm 

 

9

Weight: 2,54g Diameter:1,2cm

Numbers/date looks like 133?

N#127271 https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=178458&ppuser=0&favuser=0&sortby=t&timeframe=all&way=asc SOLVED!

 

10

Weight: 5,94g Diameter:1,5cm

Might be from Hyderabad/Elichpur, probably.

Number 2 is a half paisa from Sailana, Dule Singh, KM#4

 

https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=104459

 

 

The photos, weights, and diameters are good. It would be best to post each coin in its own topic, or at least to number them for easier reference. 

 … number them for easier reference. 

I added the 10 numbers now, and spaced each coin below. 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

I believe nr. 3 is Jaipur,  1 paisa ND (1900) regnal year 21, KM# 130: https://en.numista.com/40648 (although yours is a bit heavier, if the weight on Numista is correct)

Okay, the weight on the Numista page is a bit too low:

 

Thanks, ZacUK, for numbering the coins. 

 

Number 7 is Sultans of Gujarat, half falus, Ahmad Shah I (AH 813-846 = AD 1411-1442), Goron/Goenka G17

 

https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=137857

 

Number 1 is a billon tanka of 80 rati of the Sultans of Dehli, Sikander Shah Lodi, G/G D705

 

https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=68345

Bull and horseman, Bukhara, gujarat sultans, elichpur

Arnav

Coinwalla

Bull and horseman, Bukhara, gujarat sultans, elichpur

Can you enlighten us which one is which, please? The coins are numbered.

57,6,9,10

Arnav

Thanks everybody for the answers, you have helped a lot already! 6 are more or less identified in under 2 days, I honestly did not expect it to go this well, compared to the worn state of some of the coins above.

 

I'm wondering if nr 5 could be http://en.numista.com/62925? Looks similar to me, but I might be wrong. The weight does not match exactly, but many such struck coins had a wider range of weights.

Coinwalla

57,6,9,10

Thanks, I found some of the coins you mentioned on either Numista or Zeno. However, I cannot find nr 6, could you elaborate further on that one, please?

Coin 5 is not the one you cited in Numista, though there are some similarities in appearance. You could search around for a match among other coins of the Sultans of Gujarat and possibly the same ruler. While weights of hand-struck coins can vary by three or four tenths of a gram, they normally don't vary by a gram and a half. 

6 is a bull and horseman jital, there Is a nice article on those types by Mr. Robert Tye

Arnav

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