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WindycityWindycity Posts: 3,476 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Guessing Yemen but can't ID this coin. Any help appreciated.


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    WeissWeiss Posts: 9,938 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 18, 2018 9:10AM

    Kutch (Gujarat state in western India) 5 Kori?

    India-Princely States KUTCH 5 Kori Y# 67

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    WindycityWindycity Posts: 3,476 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow, you nailed it. No wonder I was having a tough time with identification. Thanks!

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    MrBreezeMrBreeze Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭

    1936 Edward VIII

    https://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/collectors-showcase/world-coins/one-coin-per-year-1600-2017/2422

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    SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yep, one of the few circulating coins issued in the name of "the uncrowned king", Edward VIII. See the upside-down V at top-left of the inscriptions in the bottom pic? That's the Perso-Arabic numeral "8". The only coins issued in his name were those which did not require a portrait, as he had been in disagreement with the Royal Mint on how his coin portrait should appear.

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    Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD. B)
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