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Modern Asian coins, pseudo coins and trade tokens => Iran and Afghanistan => Civic issues => Topic started by: maudry on May 23, 2020, 01:50:30 PM

Title: Afghanistan, Civic copper with 4 leaves
Post by: maudry on May 23, 2020, 01:50:30 PM

This one is similar to those two from zeno, one is attributed to Herat (https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=96940/), the other one to Qandahar (https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=96746&cat=fav/).
Size: 17mm
Weight: 5.39gr

Title: Re: Afghanistan, Civic copper with 4 leaves
Post by: Figleaf on June 01, 2020, 08:27:19 AM

There's really little left of the text, though. SInce die cutters seem to have been travelling it may be difficult to coax sufficient information out of the poor thing. However, I like its little nipple, where it was broken off the canal feeding it copper.

Peter