Whenever my grandmother visits, she gives me whatever interesting coins she’s acquired on her travels around the world. Most of them are regular circulation coins, but there’s one that I can’t identify. I can’t tell if it’s extremely worn down or if it’s so old that it predates minting. That one side seems to be struck off-center seems to indicate that it is indeed hand-struck. The obverse seems to have some sort of writing that may be Middle-Eastern (it doesn’t look particularly Indic). The reverse shows two figures in hats (to my mind, I see a couple of sherpas confronted by a snake—although their hats strike me more as Peruvian). Does anybody know anything about this coin?
I just noticed that this was posted in 2002, hence the the present tense. She passed in 2003. In fact, both my cats and my mother are gone now and my father will likely follow soon. It’s depressing to think back to times before life fell apart and I was left all alone. 😕
I’m still trying to identify this coin though.