History and Coins of Lunavada, Sunth, Chhota Udepur and Baria

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And last the coins I am not sure :
- Lunavada half paisa PM-133 ? (sword is similar but rest of design is different) weights 3.85 g & 4.90 g
- Sunth paisa with sword PM- ? (maybe the closer is PM-299) weight 6.41 g

The first and the third coins are most probably Sunth. The coins of Sunth seem to have modified versions of marks found on the coins of the surrounding states and the sword is one of them. This type, if I remember correctly is not listed in the book. Between Sameer and I, we found 5 to 6 such coins (in all 3 denominations) after the book had gone in to print. I am sure, there will still be more variations still not listed. The top coin obvers needs to be roted 90 deg. anti-clock for the actual look.

The one in the middle is for sure Lunavada - Dalelsingh. I will give the references this week end.

Amit

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............ this book is very efficient for attribution with only 3 coins on 30 not exactly found but the State is quite sure for them (look at the mess in Krause to compare !)

Thank you again for this excellent work that is a must for collectors of those States !

Even for non-collectors it is a fine acquisition. There is great background information and there are good fun illustrations. I am enjoying it.

Thank you both for the feedback. It surely helps boost the morale of the authors..........

We had tried our best to include as many types and variations that could be found. However, it appears that in spite of all our efforts and delaying the book three time (to include new types), we have apparently not succeeded in incorporating all types. I have my self picked up one or two types and found a few variations in the listed types.

KM (SACC / SCWC) is a general catalogue and covers a very vast period of time as well as area. So I would not blame them for the shortcoming on the details. As we see, detailed and specialist catalogues are coming up on regular basis. These are for the serious small area collector. If KM tried to include all the known types in each state, I do not know how big & heavy the catalogue would be....... and I am unable to even get myself to think of the price then..............

Amit

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Amit jee, somehow I missed this thread. Congratulations sir!

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Amit jee, somehow I missed this thread. Congratulations sir!

Thanks a ton........

Amit

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Our book on the coins of these 4 states was recently listed for sale at the SARC auction for a price of 20 - 40 USD and was sold at US $110 + charges US $ 22 = US $ 132 + Taxes and Postage. That is a vindication of the hard work that we put in.

The item description reads:
Panchal, Sameer, Amit Mehta and Vinay Vadke, Heritage of Gujarat through Coins. The Princely States of Chhota Udepur, Deogarh Baria, Lunavada and Sunth, Published by Sameer Panchal, Heritage Publication, Ahmedabad (Gujarat), 2016, 343 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, bilingual English and Gujarati. Probably less than half of the book is devoted to actual coinage. The remainder is an extensive history of the area including information on the classification and control of power of native states, geographic information, tax tables and information, and photographs of daily life and cultural aspects of the different areas. The coin descriptions themselves are outstanding with photographs and multi-color line drawings of the different types. Because many of the coins have designs that are larger than the flans, the authors include the complete designs on the line drawings to assist those who have only a partial design different from a photographed coin.

Amit

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Congratulations, Amit! The book indeed richly deserves it. I take it that it is sold out now? Will there be a second, updated edition?

Peter

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Congratulations, Amit! The book indeed richly deserves it. I take it that it is sold out now? Will there be a second, updated edition?

Peter

Peter, thanks for the compliments. The book is still available and in case any one needs it, they may contact me.

I do hope that there will be an updated edition in the future but there is nothing planned currently. I am currently working on the coinage of some other states which are a priority since the literature on the coinage of the Indian States, especially for the copper coins is almost non existent.

Amit