help with indian fanam
Ricke
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Anyone know how to attribute Indian Fanams?
I picked this one up in my early collecting days. I thought it was cool because it was so dang tiny, but I haven't been able to find any data on it... after a while I ended up stashing it away and just came across it again, recently. Decided to give its identification another go, but came up empty handed again. So I thought I would see if anyone here knew much - yeah, I'm taking the lazy way out...
I picked this one up in my early collecting days. I thought it was cool because it was so dang tiny, but I haven't been able to find any data on it... after a while I ended up stashing it away and just came across it again, recently. Decided to give its identification another go, but came up empty handed again. So I thought I would see if anyone here knew much - yeah, I'm taking the lazy way out...
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PS- on a very vague level, I can tell you it's probably from somewhere between the last decade of the 1600s and the first few decades of the 1800s, but that's about all. Many seem to be late 17th/early 18th century, in my limited experience with them.
Interesting.
I would love to get my hands on a copy of that reference. Never heard of it. Nor did I realize there was a book devoted solely to fanams, but I guess that shouldn't surprise me.
Does "fabrication" refer to modern fakes for commercial sale or modern restrike of some sort. I'm guessing the former. Unfortunate end to the mystery, but I do appreciate your assistance, DCH!
Still interested, LM?!
ricke, Herrli lists both 'modern fabrications' and 'fakes'. Modern fabrications are fantasy pieces, some roughly based on real coins. Pieces listed as fakes were intended to deceive collectors.
<< <i>Still interested, LM?! >>
As a matter o' fact, yeah, maybe. Gold is gold.
When I say "I would love to get my hands on" a copy of that, I'm not sure I meant buying it for 35 bucks, though that's a thought.
The trouble with esoteric reference books like these is that I don't get enough fanams to need a book about them- know what I mean?
I have the Davenport Large Silver Coins book and have never owned a single multiple-thaler piece. I'd rather have the fanam book than the Davenport, I guess.