People often mistake these tokens for coins from Guru Nanak era. Actually, these are religious tokens intended to be gifted or carried as Good luck charm.
Like Hindus, Muslims, and Christians the Sikhs produced religious tokens, which are found in different metals, but most often in Brass, Billon, Copper and Silver. These tokens seem to have been produced at Amritsar from about the middle of the 19th up to the early decades of the 20th century. These tokens were sold to sikh pilgrims outside the holy shrines by merchants and Sadhus as good luck charm. They usually show on Obverse Guru Nanak ji seated under a tree, his companions Bala and Mardana, on either side. A lota and a pair of wooden sandals. Reverse Guru Gobind Singh ji reclining on a cushion with his bird perched on an arrow, usually looks like a peacock, but on some tokens, it might also be a hunting hawk. The inscription at the Top (Om) (Ek Onkar) Sat Kartar occurs either in Gurmukhi or Nagari Script. At the bottom, most tokens show a year, Sometimes a possibly meaningful date.
These are a few very rare dies varieties of Sikh religious tokens.
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