正确答案
本帖被 易文明 执行加亮操作(2011-02-05)
经过3个月的研究，通过和国际该领域老大的探讨和与博物馆专家的请教沟通，终于搞明白了这东西的正确答案：
It is a coin of Travancore. Some similar items are housed in the museum at the old capital at Padmanabhapuram palace (now in Tamil Nadu), so it is a known type. It was actually issued around 1818 (as the date reads ME.993) during the time of Rani Parvathi Bai. I have a feeling it may have something to do with commemorating her sister Rani Lakshmi Bai who died in 1815, but this is just a hunch. Nevertheless there are several Travancore coins featuring Lakshmi attributes such as lotus buds that appear around this time. Similar large silver coins are even today produced by the authorities of the main Padmanabha temple at Trivandrum in connection with temple tributes / souvenirs, but these just feature a conch & image of the god Padmanabha.
The legend is a sort of Tamil favoured in the area local to Padmanabhapuram, together with date in Grantha numerals (a sort of Tamil way of expressing Sanskrit – similarly used for paginating manuscripts). It reads as follows: Lakshmi / Varahan / Arai (?) Nine hundred/ Ninety-three / year.
因此，这玩意在美国拍卖会上的说明：1932年TRAVANCORE 2RUPEE是完全错误的，而这个说明是该物原主人的标记，也就是说原主人就没搞懂这是什么东西。
根据上面所述，可以得出：
（1）这个不是钱币
（2）这个不是PATTERN
（3）这个铸造于1818年，并且不是2卢比。
（4）这个是皇家使用的纪念银章，并专用于皇家寺庙的供奉。感觉性质有点象高棉1875年皇宫内使用的1-10-15-20-25分系列，但这个的另一属性是专用于供奉，这和我最先的感觉：寺庙供奉是非常接近的，当时根据重量19克的判断，这不是2R也是正确的，只不过这东西属于皇家专用。
至于价值，无从考证，因为此物从未交易过。
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