Today's Newps - Thai, Crete, and Indian State?

ajaan · April 3, 2010 6:31AM

Comments welcomed. Can anyone ID the Indian State coin, date? I wonder if I paid too much for it. Impulse buy. The Thai coin is really nicer than the image.

spoon · April 3, 2010 12:48PM

Nice stuff. Looks like the Crete was a pocket piece

The Indian is from Gwalior, 1/4 anna, VS1986 = 1929AD. Now, it's either KM 177 (thin planchet, 3-3.15g) or 176.1 (thick, 4.65-5.15). KM 176.2 also shows that date and Krause says it is "crude style pug nose bust", but I don't think this is it.. but I really have no clue.

IMO, the Krause values for these in UNC are low. Decent UNC usually goes for 2-3x krause at least, nicer or slabbed can do much better.

edit - do fully struck examples of those small Thai ones exist? is the Easter bunny hoarding them all? still, yours is nice

ajaan · April 3, 2010 9:42PM

Thanks Eric. I got 5g when I weighed it, so I guess it is KM#176.1 Since I only paid 80c for it I think I did OK.

Those small Thai coins seem to be always weakly struck which makes grading them very difficult for me.