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For no other reason than to show my recent acquisitions of Bahmanis Sultanate. I am really taken by these solid silvers. Most are the sellers photos, the AH815 is the first to arrive so I took a snap of that one. Thanks for looking 1397 (AH799) Tanka 25.01 10.81g Silver Ahsanabad Mint Muhammad Shah II GG # BH51  1398 (AH800) Tanka 25.36 10.81g Silver Ahsanabad Mint Taj ud din Firuz GG # BH63  1399 (AH801) Tanka 24.37 10.88g Silver Ahsanabad Mint Taj ud din Firuz GG # BH63  1400 (AH802) Tanka 25.11 10.89g Silver Ahsanabad Mint Taj ud din Firuz GG # BH63  1401 (AH803) Tanka 25.12 10.86g Silver Ahsanabad Mint Taj ud din Firuz GG # BH63  1402 (AH804) Tanka 25.39 10.91g Silver Ahsanabad Mint Taj ud din Firuz GG # BH63  1403 (AH805) Tanka 26.41 10.93g Silver Ahsanabad Mint Taj ud din Firuz GG # BH63  1405 (AH807) Tanka 26.50 10.98g Silver Ahsanabad Mint Taj ud din Firuz GG # BH63  1410 (AH813) Tanka 25.66 11.01g Silver Ahsanabad Mint Taj ud din Firuz GG # BH63  1412 (AH815) Tanka 26.12 10.96g Silver Ahsanabad Mint Taj ud din Firuz GG # BH63  The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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Excellent coins, ttkoo - thank you for sharing them with us. Posts like yours truly make the CCF an educational site.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Hey thanks Hondo Bogus. Just glad to share them. (the head of domestic affairs is not so thrilled)  Also requested mods to change the topic title to ...."late 14th to early 15th centuries"..... (brain fade) The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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03/29/2024 4:05 pm
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The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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Also added, but slipped my mind   The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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As discussed in HFBCWG edition 6 Coins in hand AH 799, 800, 801, 802, 803, 804, 805, 806, 807 & 813.     The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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I recently added an AH 814 (1411 C.E.) AR Tanka which became available to fill the gap for that year.  The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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I recently added an AH 814 (1411 C.E.) AR Tanka which became available to fill the gap for that year. Fantastic! 
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Cool coins ttkoo! Are the depressions test punches? Like the one just above center on the obverse of your coin (and several of your previous posts).
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Hadn't seen this thread before so am really glad to stumble across it now. I'm wondering if you could comment a bit about the drill marks. I'm assuming that these are done to assay the silver content, but they seem so common that I wonder if they influence the price at all. Also, are the specific locations chosen significant, either because they are close to a specific word or perhaps each assayer has "their spot" where they tend to drill. Thx!
Added: typed too slowly and got scooped by @chr with essential the same question!
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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@chr & @spence
Yes, test marks to assure the traders of the day that the coins were genuine and not silvered. I haven't read anything definitive about the practice, but in my mind, the coins with more than one test mark would indicate that the counterfeiters of the time would produce coins with test marks in them prior to silvering to give the impression that the coin had been tested several times. I don't know if there was a "special spot" for the testers to do the drilling, it just seems to be in any random flat spot for convenience. As the majority of coins from the Bahmanis tankas have these marks, it doesn't seem to greatly affect the pricing that I have noticed
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Ok interesting @ttk. Thx!
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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