Odd coin

This coin seems out of place

Care to elaborate? And also show us pictures?

FlyingRedPanda

Care to elaborate? And also show us pictures?

Discussion about Western Liao dynasty • 1 Fals - Yelü Dashi

There is a link to coin on top of topic. He is questioning coin in catalog. Still has to explain why he thinks that coin is out of place.

You are looking at catalog sorted by face value. That coin does not have currency set, hence goes under unspecified currency.

From wikipedia

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In 1124, Yelü Dashi fled to the west with a band of his followers, and established the Western Liao dynasty.

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Other coins in that category are Chinese and issued by later emperors. This one is Arabic. I guess it just needs new category. I am not versed in region history, but I would suspect that dude issued coins in names that locals understood and tried to assert his authority as their next kaliph before later emperors switched to Chinese.

but why woul dhe only make 1 type of coin

Coinwalla

but why woul dhe only make 1 type of coin

 

Same reason why early money are called “money”

My country started with one crudely stamped coin variant too. My neighbors were also calling their coins as “coins”

Indeed is different from the Cash Coins, but maybe because is somekind of provincial issue

There are more on Zeno

https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=24134