Monday, May 26, 2008

numismatics



while in mysore over the weekend of 24/25may2008, i was able 2 get my hands onto 5 coins. the guy hawking them was very talkative, to the piont where he claimed he knew a lil bit of french, italian, spanish, chinese and japanese! when i proded him 2 say something in spanish, i thought what i heard was french. :) anyways, the coins are:
1.20 cents south african coin minted in 1996 with "AFERIKA BORWA" on what i think is the obverse
2.10 agorot israel coin, minted 1985 probably
3.10 cents of all places from sierra leone, 1964, with sir milton margai on the obverse
now the next two, i cannot verify the authenticity yet.
4.left facing elephant on the obverse with perpendicular lines and dot in the center on the reverse. the guy claimed it was from the period of tipu sultan. needless to say, i'm yet to find a pic on the internet matching this one!
5.some arabic or urdu inscriptions one side and 2 in the middle of a circular pattern on the other. this was supposedly from the nawab of hyderabad times! i'm dissapointed to note that the coins i've seen online from that age have what looks like charminar on the obverse.

these last 2 coins have quite a bit of grime on them, so i'm in the process of cleaning them currently. i shall post what i find later.

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