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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Hi folks, What year is this coin from?   Thanks, Ken |
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Valued Member
Croatia (Locally: Hrvatska)
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Better picture would help a lot.
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Pillar of the Community
 United Kingdom
1688 Posts |
  Any better? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2605 Posts |
1997 1992Here's what I used. And it let me down   Edited by svslav
02/09/2011 9:46 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Pillar of the Community
United States
539 Posts |
well I think it is actually 1992. to be precise it is 5752. I'm not sure why the calculator thing gave 1997. Clearly you selected 5752.
Edited by weavus135
02/09/2011 4:23 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2605 Posts |
You're right, weavus, according to the Krause dating it is 1992. I guess this program needs to work out some bugs.
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Moderator
 Australia
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The "bug" is the failure of the Israeli coin designers to use the ' symbol to denote "thousands" as this calculator expects it to do. If you insert the thousands separation sign ' before the last number 5, like the example given in the eighth paragraph (or omit the final number 5 entirely) it will return "1992" properly. Just tack "5" onto the end of the date and it simply adds 5 to the calculated number.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Bulgaria
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10 agorot new style 1992.
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New Member
Russian Federation
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Hi everyone, my name is Andrei Tretyakov, and I'm the author and co-developer of the above mentioned app, Creounity Time Machine.
First, I want to thank svslav and others for using it. Then, thanks a lot to Sap for providing the explanation.
Indeed, adding (') before the "5" (meaning 5000) is a must, since it was designed so in order to unify both with-5000 and without-5000 variants of writing a date.
This rule has been written in the descriptive part (starts with "Essential detail:..."), I've now made it bold.
And yes, sure thing, this is an inconvenience for those who use my app to identify their coins. I'm sorry for that. I do my best to provide the most relevant, useful, convenient (and free :) ) service for coin collectors, so today (2011-January-10th) I've made a record in the Time Machine buglist and will fix it as soon as I get my hands on buxfixing.
Thank you again for pointing this shortcoming out!
Edited by inscriptor
02/10/2011 09:22 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Andrei, I'd like to thank you for this great tool and apologize for not reading the instructions/rules. As Sap noted it is rather the coin designers "fault", not your program's. I just was concentrating on copying exactly what I saw on the coin.
It's a good tool to use when I'm away from my catalogs, and some people don't have a book with the numerals and/or the conversion table.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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indeed, I agree with svslav. This looks to be a very useful tool. I had not known about this prior to this posting but now have it bookmarked.
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New Member
Russian Federation
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As a temporary measure, I've just added a schematic reminder of the thousands separation sign usage rule.
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Valued Member
Israel
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The "bug" is the failure of the Israeli coin designers to use the ' symbol to denote "thousands" It is not the fault of the Israeli coin designers. The standard practice for writing the date in Hebrew is to imply the 5000 |
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