Coin Identification Help

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oldlinecoins
oldlinecoins Posts: 183 ✭✭✭
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I'm having trouble identifying this gold coin. Any help on identification would be greatly appreciated

10.94 grams
17mm

I think I see the date year AH1218 on the reverse
I think it's either from Afghanistan or India

The most similar match I could find was the Afghanistan Herat Dar as-Sultanat Mohur KM#399 (see picture) but the obverse is different and the reverse is a little different too






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  • yosclimber
    yosclimber Posts: 5,322 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The style does seem to be Afghanistan, Durrani Shahs, Mohur.
    I tried for awhile but could not get an exact match.
    https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?similar=1078346

  • oldlinecoins
    oldlinecoins Posts: 183 ✭✭✭
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    Thank you very much. Much appreciated

  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,066 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    old gold, cool

  • Bjorn
    Bjorn Posts: 545 ✭✭✭
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    The date is definitely AH 1218 - note that the reverse is actually nearly the same as the one illustrated, but the specimen in the book has a smaller flan, hence parts of it are missing. The obverse is totally different - this suggests a similar region or city produced the coin, but likely a different ruler. Unfortunately, that is all I can really add to the discussion!

  • oldlinecoins
    oldlinecoins Posts: 183 ✭✭✭
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    @Bjorn said:
    The date is definitely AH 1218 - note that the reverse is actually nearly the same as the one illustrated, but the specimen in the book has a smaller flan, hence parts of it are missing. The obverse is totally different - this suggests a similar region or city produced the coin, but likely a different ruler. Unfortunately, that is all I can really add to the discussion!

    Yea, I agree, the reverse looks practically the same, it's just centered differently and slightly smaller flan. I guess for now, the obverse origin will remain a mystery! haha

    Since there seems to be no record of this obverse, I guess it's possible this is a counterfeit

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