Group of 25 Indian Gold and Silver Fanams
We Last Sold This Item For: | $520.00 |
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Last Sold On: | 13/9/2022 |
# Sold In Past 12 Months: | 0 |
Group of 25 Indian Gold and Silver Fanams
Issued between the 1300's and the 1800's
Gold - 20; Silver - 5
This is a great little accumulation of some of the smallest gold coins ever issued anywhere in the world.
The coinage of India prior to the 1900s is a complex and rewarding area - not only are the designs, symbols and languages vastly different from those issued in Western countries at the same time, but there were also a large number of different regions in the geographical area now known as India.
For those reasons, the coinage of India struck prior to 1900 requires a degree of specialized knowledge and diligence over and above more familiar areas of numismatics.
We have several books that cover Indian coinage prior to 1900 (think the Krause "Standard Catalog of World Coins" and Mitchiner's "Oriental Coins and Their Values"), but we concede defeat - we haven't been able to confidently identify the coins that are included in this group, and have exhausted our patience in doing so!
It looks like the previous owner of these coins was provided with modest amounts of information on them when he purchased them. We're not 100% confident those attributions are correct, the following regions and areas seem to be included:
Viraraya; Vijayanagar; Ramarau and Dutch Cochin.
Be advised that these coins are being sold as-is - realistically, there is a modest chance some of them are modern reproductions, but we are not knowingly selling them as genuine!
If you have an interest in the series or like an intellectual challenge, this will be a great group to acquire and do some work on.
SKU: 210516
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