Record ID: DENO-D061D6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval coin; Struck gold fanam from the Cochin area of the Dutch West coast of India. This is a very tiny, dished coin with abstract designs of circles, lines and dots on both sides. The coin was identified by Sam Moorhead (British Museum), who notes that coins of this type were struck by the Rajas of Cochin and the Zamorins of Kalicut in the period c1600-1800. Diameter 7.7mm, thickness 0.8mm, weight 0.39g Ref: M. Mitchiner, Non-Islamic States and Western Colonies, AD 600-1979,p. 213, c.f. nos. 1585-6
Created on: Friday 28th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 7th July 2022
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