Coins Of India - Indian Princely States

Here is one coin from Gwalior. Its weight is higher than the usual Gwalior coin standards. Mint name is clear, but I am unable to find any date or ruler's name. It is attributed to Jayajirao of Gwalior for the following reasons.
1. Burhanpur went to the Gwalior rulers from the Mughals. Though there was struggle with the Nizam of Hyderabad for the area, he never held it securely enough to issue coins. So if it is not Mughal, it can only be a Gwalior issue.
2. The double horizontal line on its obverse is usually found on Gwalior coins.
3. The mint-mark is known for Burhanpur during the period of Jayajirao (AD.1827-1833/AH.1243-1249)

I was unable to find a match for this coin anywhere so far. Anyone who can do so is welcome. please enjoy the coin.

drnsreedhar can you please help with this piece the I have...posted about it in the "Identification: Unidentified Coins, Medals, and Tokens" but unfortunately I did not get an answer. I would really appreciate your time and effort in helping me with this please. Thanks in advance. Here's the link to the post http://goccf.com/t/386635

Thank you so much for your reply @drnsreedhar hope all is well with you. I am eagerly awaiting your response. Much appreciated.

Posting a Fanam of Hyderali issued for Malabar Coast of Southern India. Hyderali was working as the representative for the Wodeyar King of Mysore at Dindigal, Tamilnadu. Palakkaad ruler who had frictions with the Zamorin of Calicut (Kozhikod in the local dialect) invited him to invade Kozhikod. Hyder was happy only to do so. He later subjugated Kozhikod in 1766 after he had snatched power from the Wodeyar King in 1761. He could not remain there to consolidate his position due to the first Mysore war. He was constantly contested by the Marathas, Hyderabad Nizam and the British. Finally Mysore, Maratha and Hyderabad formed an alliance to fight the British in the second Mysore war (1779-1784). Hyder breathed his last in 1782, before the war ended.
A peculiar type of Fanam (called Panam in Tamil and Malayalam and Hana in Kannada) in gold, weighing around 0.4 gm was current over a vast area of South India. It is known from the Hoysala times ie.14the century CE. Lots of related, but different images found their place on the fanam coins. In the Malabar coast, Travancore, Cochin(Dutch issues) and Kozhikod issued them and all fanam coins were transactable at par with one another all over the coast. It was current over the region during the late eighteenth century as well. Hyderali issued his fanam coins for his Malabar holdings including Kozhikod and Palakkad.
The obverse of fanams has a symbol still not properly understood, but is called "Kali". There are three major variants of that side known as Viraraya, Anantharaya and Kaliyan. They differ in their morphology of the upper half of the design. Dots and lines of various types are added to the basic symbol indicating local variations, that are not too easy to understand. Viraraya type is by far the commonest, the rest two being used quite often in Travancore.




Hyderali issues show Virarayan obverse and on the reverse, there are twelve dots with Persian letter "He" to its right.


Letter "He" is highlighted here


And to conclude, the twelve dots represent the twelve Zodiac months of the local calendars. They are called "Rasis" which imparted another name "Rasi Panam" to the coins bearing these dots. (An interesting Rasi coin is the Rasi Stuiver of Dutch Cochin)

This is a fantastic thread and I hope it keeps going.

I wonder if drnsreedhar could kindly help me with the attached rupee of Jahangir from the Lahore mint. I've overlaid it with the translations for everything but I'm unsure of the translation of the yellow section on the obverse.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Thank you very much - that's really helpful.

Very nice!