Help identifying coins

[sambevan77]

H i am new to the forum and not a coin collector beyond some old uk coppers i had from my grandfather 40 years ago and the odd silver uk coins i randomly bough tover the years, bu ti bought a job lot of jewelry at an auction (case and contents) and these were in the bottom, obviously i would like someone to tell me i won the lottery but i doubt this if the rest of the contents of the box are anything to go by! but beyond this i would like to know what they are as there are some interesting and old looking coins here the centre coin in top row is 20mm across many thanks

[Paddy]

Welcome to the forum @sambevan77

An interesting selection, but as you say nothing I think of startling value. It would take a long time and a lot of effort to fully ID all of those.

A few shots:

Row 1 - first is Roman, second looks to be "Hollandia" - ie Netherlands 18thc, third might be an Indian temple token, fourth and fifth I think are Ancient Sri Lankan, sixth looks byzantine, seventh no idea.

Row 2 - first may be another byzantine, 2nd, 3rd, 4th look to be Indian , 5th maybe French, 6th, 7th and 8th Roman.

Row 3 - 1st, 3rd and 4th look South American, 2nd might be the most valuable as it maybe an Indian gold Fanam, 5th and 9th no idea, 6th, 7th and 8th Indian or Middle Eastern.

I hope that helps. You will have to do much more research in your own time, but hopefully those thoughts will get you into the right areas.

 

[sambevan77]

Hi Paddy thanks for your comprehensive answer, nearly drove myself insane with image searches, identify coin apps and trolling through images online all to no real end but you have given me what i needed to at least look in the right direction and hopefully get a little of the history of these, although as i said in my post that i am not a coin collector i have over the years bought quite a bit of British silver and often wonder where these coins have been and what they have seen (were they at waterloo or in the trenches in WW1?) but up until now my oldest coins are tudor hammered coins so looking forward to using your info to see how old these are, where they are fom and where they have been, thanks again

[Paddy]

For the Asian coins I recommend this website: https://www.zeno.ru/index.php - far and away the most extensive resource on Asian coins.

For example, I think the ones I suggested as Sri Lankan are similar to this: https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=371736&cat=3449&ppuser=&sortby=d&way=desc

 

[wlewisiii]

2 hours ago, Paddy said:

For the Asian coins I recommend this website: https://www.zeno.ru/index.php - far and away the most extensive resource on Asian coins.

For example, I think the ones I suggested as Sri Lankan are similar to this: https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=371736&cat=3449&ppuser=&sortby=d&way=desc

 

Oh, that's a dangerous website. It makes me remember and think about Japanese mon, ichibu-gin and other such Meiji era coins 🤣 I really don't need _Another_ rabbit hole!

[sambevan77]

brilliant cheers Paddy i will have a look on there, just coming back with a quick update tried finding the "Hollandia" and i think you are correct but i can not find an exact match but some very close even the shape of the lions tail i had to give in on that (fo r now), you were bang on with the Srilankan (see attached) so thanks again for the pointers i will be continuing the quest in spare time and hopefully have updates in the future, I see you found them on the link (only just noticed the text by the link!) thanks again

[Paddy]

With the Sri Lankan coins, bear in mind that very similar designs were used on their coins for several generations of rulers. They can be distinguished by the real experts, but that is beyond me! If you want to be precise, I suggest you join Zeno and post good quality pictures there. You will usually get chapter and verse back within a few hours. (Do read the requirements for posting - they have strict guidelines.)

Here is one I had years ago but sold to a collector in Thailand: