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

[asm]

Thanks a lot Abhay for your views.

It was a major dilemma on English / Gujarati. English was a foregone conclusion and we debated about the second part for a long time. What finally deiced the issue was that we added about 65 or 70 pages for the Gujarati Text and there are may collectors of these coins in Gujarat (where these states are located) who do not understand English. However, that gave us the opportunity to add more images as the images included with both texts are different. We decided on this since heritage is being lost and it was necessary to document the maximum that we could.

The weight increase was because of paper thickness and hard cover - both necessary for the quality ........

However, we will keep the suggestion in mind for future work.

Thanks once again.

Amit.

[sameer panchal]

Thanks Friends for appreciating the Book.

[mitresh]

Hey Sameer! Welcome to WoC, i didn't know you were member of this forum hence just wished Amit for the book.

You of course deserve all the compliments coming your way for the superb work and great efforts. Keep it up.


Mitresh

[sameer panchal]

Thank you Mitresh ji.

[shashi106]

Congratulations to authors....for nice work. Though I do not have this book (but I have Sameer's all other published books) I feel the book will be accepted by collectors as root source for mentioned princely states coins.

[asm]

Congratulations to authors....for nice work. Though I do not have this book (but I have Sameer's all other published books) I feel the book will be accepted by collectors as root source for mentioned princely states coins.

Thanks for the words of encouragement. Please PM me if you need the book.

Amit

[shashi106]

I will...when I come to India in August. will meet you and Sameer during the August exhibition.

[asm]

Look forward to meeting you............

Amit

[MORGENSTERNN]

Hello
I received the book last week and it's helpful for attribution of coins from those areas (other documents available are really poor for these series)
I will list some of the coins you can find in this excellent book (including the few I can't proper attribute)
References for those coins are from the book PM for Panchal-Mehta

In the book you can find plenty of informations and pictures about history of the 4 states

First state is Chotta Udepur
Here pictures of
- 2 paisa PM-31 weight 14.34 g
- 1 paisa PM-32 weights 5.65 g - 6.74 g  &  7.16 g

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The second state is Baria
I don't get coins of this state except is this one is not from Lunavada : close to PM-73 but "waves" (persian letter ?) both side of the katar (not name of the ruler)
Weight is 7.28 g

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Third state is Lunavada

- paisa with katar same design as PM-78 (quarter paisa) weights 7.44 g & 8.49 g
- paisa with branch PM-111 weights 7.06 g & 8.65 g
- half paisa with standard PM-116.1 weight 4.18 g
- paisa with umbrella PM-119 weight 8.65 g
- paisa with flower & flag PM-136 weight 7.42 g
- half or quarter paisa with lotus 1 dot in centre PM-184 or 185 weight 3.21 g

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some more of Lunavada
- paisa with lotus (no dot in centre) PM-190.1 weight 8.18 g
- paisa with hand PM-196 weight 8.25 g (struck over lotus type)
- half paisa with hand PM-204 weight 3.67 g (stuck over lion type)
- paisa with hand in square PM-215 weight 7.83 g (stuck over hand type)
- paisa with lion PM-222.2 ? (obverse is illegible on my coin) weight 7.58 g

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Last state is Sunth

- paisa with fly whisk & sword PM-277 ? (fly whisk on left, not on right) weight 7.21 g
- half paisa with fly whisk & sword PM-281 weight 4.31 g
- paisa with spear & sword PM-289 weight 9.18 g
- paisa with sunburst PM-334 weights 7.98 g & 9.26 g
- paisa with sunburst PM-339 weight 7.92 g
- paisa with sun, moon & star between spears PM-344 weight 6.50 g
- paisa with sun, moon & star between spears PM-347 ? (spear in seen of julus instead sword) weight 4.68 g

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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

To conclude 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 !

[Figleaf]

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

Peter