Need help identifying slightly off-center piece

danglen · July 17, 2005 5:02AM

Looks like something out of India, but I have no clue.....

wybrit · July 17, 2005 5:05AM

lordmarcovan · July 17, 2005 5:12AM

I'm thinkin' Persia (Iran). 18th or early 19th century, perhaps.

But I dunno for sure. That's a WAG.

lordmarcovan · July 17, 2005 5:15AM

Stylistically, it looks like this Persian coin I gave my mother, which is why I went for Iran. But of course Mom's coin is gold, and I can't read the script, and there are a number of central Asian and Arabic coins that look like that.

So I dunno.

spoon · July 17, 2005 8:43AM

I don't know what I'm talking about, but that's definitely Persian

spoon · July 17, 2005 8:46AM

I'd say 1700s, but I don't have a Krause for it. My WAG is that it might be Kashan mint, but again.. I don't know nuthin about these!

BTW, that's a pretty cool display there Lord M. Did you make it or buy it?

lordmarcovan · July 17, 2005 9:18AM

Eric- it was a custom Solid-Craft display.

Ken, aka "Solid", on the forums, makes them, in all shapes, formats, and sizes. He was happy to do Mom's coin because it was the first hammered (non-round) coin he'd done. I think he said he was gonna use that picture in his catalog.

Need help identifying slightly off-center piece

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