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.5 gr AND 8 mm. WE HAVE DROPPED THE PRICE! WE HAVE PURCHASED A SMALL HOARD OF THESE RARE GEM UNC GOLD COINS. THEY HAVE A STYLYZED MOON AND SUN ON ONE SIDE AND A CONCH SHELL DESIGN ON THE OTHER. THESE COINS WERE PROBABLY BURIED IN A RED CLAY POT OF SOME SORT AS WHEN WE GOT THEM THEY HAD A LITE RED FILM ON THEM, WHICH WHEN WE REMOVED, LEFT GLEAMING GEM BRILLIANT UNCIRCULATED COINS FRESH AS THE DAY THEY WERE MADE. OLD COINS FROM INDIA ARE HOT TODAY WITH MANY SELLING FOR 5X 10X AND EVEN 20X THE CATALOG PRICE. WE CAN SELL THESE FOR $49 EACH FOR ONE AND A BIT LESS IF YOU WOULD LIKE QUANTITIES. IF YOU WANT BETWEEN 5 AND 10 WE WILL SELL FOR $45 EACH AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE THAN 10 PLEASE EMAIL US AS QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED.
LOCATED ON THE MALABAR COAST, AT THE SOUTHERN TIP OF INDIA. ALTHOUGH THE NAME COCHIN APPEARS ONLY TOAVE COME INTO USE AT THE END OF THE 15TH CENTURY, THIS WAS A VERY ANCIENT STATE WHOSE ORIGINS WERE LOST IN ANTIQUITY. IN ROMAN TIMES THERE WAS A STEADY TRADE BETWEEN COCHIN AND THE WEST, BUT FROM THAT TIME ONWARD COCHIN'S HISTORY IS LARGELY CONJECTURE UNTIL THE ARRIVLE OF THE ONWARD COCHIN'S HISTORY IS LARGELY CONJECTURE UNTIL THE ARRIVLE OF THEPORTUGUESE UNDER VASCO DE GAMA IN THE 15TH CENTURY. IN THE 1663 COCHIN CAME UNDER DUTCH OCCUPATION AND REMAINED SO FOR ALMOST A HUNDRED YEARS UNTIL HAIDER ALI AND TIPU SULTAN OF MYSORE OVER-RAN THE REGION. IN 1791, LARGELY TO ESCAPETHE DEMANDS OF MYSORE THE RAJA OF COCHIN PLACED HIMSLEF UNDER BRITISH PROTECTION. IN 1809 A SECOND TREATY STRENGTHEND BRITISH CONTROL OF THE STATE. IN 1949 COCHIN MERGED WITH TRAVENCORE FORMING THE STATE OF TRAVANCORE AND COCHIN WHICH BECAME PART OF THE NEW STATE OF KERALA IN 1956.
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