Oh wait, you are not en Emirati collector, but a U.S. contractor here. Do you by any chance know of a place in Dubai which sells coins or notes? Other than the old souq in Deira, because it sold me lots of counterfeits that I thought were real.
Once I learned how to read Arab numbers it was easy to read most Middle Eastern coins. Got some in Egypt back in '01 and that's what got me to learn the numbers. Now I have a bunch of piastres from Egypt, a handful of Kuwaiti fils, some Saudi Arabia halalas, a 25 fil coin from the UAE, a 2 franc coin from Tunisia from 1924 (technically Greater Middle East but still...) and a small lot of Israeli shekels. Now the Israeli coin datess...man, those I definitely need the internet for. I'd love to get my hands on more coinage though. I have tons of Afghanis before they revalued the currency. They gave it away over there because it was so worthless. I made them part of my collection as a cool souvenir.
Nice timely post. Last night I found a small silver coin in a bag of pennies. 1944 coin from Iran. It has a lion holding a sword with the sun behind on one side and what looks like a curved one on the back.
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