Forgery coins

Some forgery coins I meet on my way as coin collector

Dutch India
AU "new Porto Nova pagoda" 1747- 1787 (Negapatnam, Tuticorin, Colombo)

Clearly casted piece of a Porto Nova pagoda.
3,39 gram, diameter 11-12 mm. The piece is clearly filed all the way round in the edge and a little on the obverse (is not clear on the scanning) to remove the rest from the casting. The piece is uncirculated and even that you don't find any rest of a sharpe stamp on any place on the coin.
This one I got from India 2001, but it was purchased in 2000 in South India by a dealer.
The piece is returned.
Scanned by 300 dpi

Portuguese Malacca
2 tanga (half xerafins?) 1631, Silver, 25 mm, 6,04 gram
Obververse: Crowned Portuguese shield with mintletters beside A - M (Asia Malacca)
Reverse: Monogram of value ? T - A, besides D - M (De Malacca), below the year 1631. Unpublished (no publication show this design of the type!)
I do not have the difinitive proof of the forgery, but the design seems to be wrong and other circumstances do it may be forgery.
I have bought the piece by a dealer in Malaysia and also 1 tanga 1640 and 2 tanga 1638 (the two last are, with much difficulties and cost, returned). The same dealer has offered other pieces and another years of the same and also other coins as were forgery.

The piece is scanned by 150 dpi.

Black and white photo

Danish India, Tranquebar

1 fano 1818, silver. Thin blank. At least two pieces known. Found by dealer in South India 1991 or earlier.

More in my articel "Falsk 1 fano 1818 fra Trankebar".

The forgery lead coins of Tranquebar in the collection of Government Museum in Madras.

The articel is in danish but the photos and the registratiion could be a little usefully?.