✅ SOLVED Unknown coin?

[polly2h]

Hi,

Hope some one can help! My son returned from a coin fair with this supposedly (?!!!!) genuine old coin (said to be viking) but he paid very little for it and I can't find an image of it anywhere. It is c.17mm across, up to c.1mm thick with some cracking around the edges. It is not magnetic and when tested with a garrett ace 250, gives similar reading to known silver coins (no doubt there are some other metals in that category too!). I have no accurate scales for it but it is heavy enough for the size. Thanks, Mick.

 

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[DCMatt]

These are SO hard to determine with Western eyes... It appears to be an Islamic coin known as a "Samanta Deva jital". You can see the bull on the front and the horseman on the back. They range from 1000 A.D. give or take a few centuries. Cool coin but fairly common. You can do a Google image search to try to find a match.

DCMatt

 

[polly2h]

These are SO hard to determine with Western eyes... It appears to be an Islamic coin known as a "Samanta Deva jital". You can see the bull on the front and the horseman on the back. They range from 1000 A.D. give or take a few centuries. Cool coin but fairly common. You can do a Google image search to try to find a match.

DCMatt

Thanks so much DCMatt, this one has been driving me mad for months (I was checking Viking/Celtic....) and you've sorted it out within a couple of hours! Thanks for your help, Mick