Hello!
Could you tell me if this is fake or real one? If real, how popular is it? What it is worth?
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i had the same issue with the exact same coin before you can find the reply's and pics of my coin on this link :- http://www.coinpeople.com/index.php?showto...mp;#entry345233
as some of the members posted it is a fantasy piece ..... looks like mine isnt the only one with the non real rainbow effect.
hope this info helps
as some of the members posted it is a fantasy piece ..... looks like mine isnt the only one with the non real rainbow effect.
hope this info helps
Hi!
Thanks for your help, good to know what I have. This one I bought in Pushkar, India, for 1 Pound I thught it may be fake, but still a souvenir from a trip
All the best
Radek
Thanks for your help, good to know what I have. This one I bought in Pushkar, India, for 1 Pound
I thught it may be fake, but still a souvenir from a trip All the best
Radek
anytime ^_^
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Here is what I learnt about these from an expert on another forum...
"These fakes appeared in the Indian market sometime during the late 1980s. They have a large variety of religious motifs on the obverse. On the reverse one often find a reference to the East India Company, a denomination and sometimes a date too.
The earliest pieces are of quite good workmanship, often with a milled edge, with all kind of religious motifs, but they became more and more crude. Some mention a place name Ratlam. Perhaps they were (and probably still are) manufactured there.
The majority of the pieces bear mostly a 'date' 1818, but it seems they have gone back in time by adding a 'date' 1616. A 'date' 1839 is also popular on these pieces. These pieces can in general be regarded as religious motivated tokens. Their references to the East India Company is purely fantasy, as are the dates on them.
The monkey with the scales and the two cats represent a popular children's story. Two cats quarrelled about food. So the monkey would try to equally divide it, but every time the scale got out of balance, the monkey tried to get it in balance by eating the food from the heavier side. This went on and on, till nothing was left. The morality of the story you can fill-in yourself."
"These fakes appeared in the Indian market sometime during the late 1980s. They have a large variety of religious motifs on the obverse. On the reverse one often find a reference to the East India Company, a denomination and sometimes a date too.
The earliest pieces are of quite good workmanship, often with a milled edge, with all kind of religious motifs, but they became more and more crude. Some mention a place name Ratlam. Perhaps they were (and probably still are) manufactured there.
The majority of the pieces bear mostly a 'date' 1818, but it seems they have gone back in time by adding a 'date' 1616. A 'date' 1839 is also popular on these pieces. These pieces can in general be regarded as religious motivated tokens. Their references to the East India Company is purely fantasy, as are the dates on them.
The monkey with the scales and the two cats represent a popular children's story. Two cats quarrelled about food. So the monkey would try to equally divide it, but every time the scale got out of balance, the monkey tried to get it in balance by eating the food from the heavier side. This went on and on, till nothing was left. The morality of the story you can fill-in yourself."
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