LARINS
    The larin story in a nutshell: these are pieces of silver wire bent double and stamped with dies.  Period of issue is more or less 16-18th centuries, and known issuers were the governments of the Ottoman Turks, the Safavid Shahs of Iran, the sultans of Bijapur in India, (probably) private individuals in Ceylon, and the Maldives (?).  Some of the dies were borrowed from regular coin issues, while others were special long-and-thin larin dies.  Either way, they are very hard to read. Read my article on Maldivian coinage for more verbiage on this subject.

INDIA, BIJAPUR, 'Ali 'Adil Shah II, 1657-72, silver larin K11.1 partial date 106x, date seems to be written retrograde, aVF $38.00  sold 10/12/2009
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