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Documented specimen · The Met collection

A Mughal zodiac coin depicting Leo, catalogued by The Met.

This page documents one real coin in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The catalog facts and identifications below come from The Met's catalog; the captions describe only what the collection photographs visibly show. This page is not a Coin Says Hi reading, a visitor upload, or a prior analysis.

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Metropolitan Museum collection photograph of the zodiac coin showing a lion-like figure before a radiate sun, with an inscription band below.
The Met's color collection view of the lion-and-sun face. The catalog's Leo reading is a catalog claim, not a visual identification this page performs.
Metropolitan Museum monochrome collection photograph of the lion-and-sun face.
The Met's monochrome collection view of the lion-and-sun face.
Metropolitan Museum monochrome collection photograph of the inscription face covered by calligraphic text.
The Met's monochrome close view of the inscription face, covered by calligraphic text.

What The Met catalog records

Object
Coin
Attribution
India
Date
1027 AH / 1618 CE
Medium
Silver
Diameter
2.2 cm
Credit line
Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898

The Met collection record for object 99.35.2385

How the catalog describes it

  • The Met catalog describes the coin as one of Emperor Jahangir's zodiac issues.
  • The catalog reads the design as Leo, corresponding to the coin's issue month.

What this page does not show

  • This is a museum collection specimen. Coin Says Hi did not analyze it, no visitor submitted it, and this page is not a reading.
  • The catalog credit line records an acquisition, not a complete ownership chain or an archaeological findspot.
  • The Met's identification, date, and design description are catalog claims about this object. They cannot authenticate, grade, assess the condition of, establish the rarity of, or value this coin or any other.
  • A coin photograph can support comparison; it cannot prove identity, authenticity, grade, rarity, or market value.
  • Image glare and surface texture in these photographs do not support grading or condition claims.

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  1. Open The Met's object record and compare its catalog claims with the collection photographs.
  2. For a coin that resembles this issue, record your own observations and compare them with an independent catalogue rather than these images.
  3. Do not infer emperor, date, mint, authenticity, grade, or value from a photograph or from visual resemblance to this catalog specimen.

Further reading: Work with a script you cannot read · Identify a coin from visible details

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