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BALURGHAT: 43 ancient coins believed to belong to the Islamic period was discovered from a pond in Kushmandi by a group of villagers while decomposing jute on Tuesday afternoon. The rare coins were stored in a copper pot underwater in Kushmandi's Parameswarpur village around 70 km from here. Later the officials told us that they were silver coins of the Islamic period," said a villager. Experts say the coins dated between 1342 AD and 1389 AD of the Islamic period. Now the coins are being kept in safe custody at Dakshin Dinajpur State Museum in Balurghat..