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Old 29th August 2014, 03:24 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
Here are a couple pics of pages from my coin album, pretty typical of the rest of it, a mixture of coins from far away places and mostly historic, with a weighting towards Indian hand strucks.

Not much that is of any real value, not much that is really old. But all a bit exotic.
Yeah, quite a difference in age between these interesting examples of yours and the early karshapanas i posted ... actualy the only pieces i keep since i quit collecting coins (no budget for collecting both early/silver/gold coins & antique weapons ).
It didn't occur to me that, at the age of your rupees, coins still were hand struck; my kignorance
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