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Valued Member
Ireland
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iv over 800 world coins and these are the only coins I have that I dont know at least where they come from.   can anyone help? |
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Forum Mom
 United States
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My initial feeling is that they're from India. Hopefully, someone with more knowledge on these will reply soon.
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Valued Member
United States
270 Posts |
The ones with the palm trees are old Iraqi coins.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Most of those coins have Arabic numerals on them, so my first guess would be somewhere on the Arab Peninsular for those. Maybe Kidcollector in Kuwait could help you there. Steve  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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The larger 8 sided coin is an Iraq 250 Fils. They were made in 1980,81 and 1990. Your is a 1981...the ^ is an 8.
The coin to the left of it is a 1981 50 Fils from Iraq.
and the one to the left of that coin is a 1970 25 Fils from Iraq.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1091 Posts |
The one on the right of the second row is an Israel 50 Prutah made between 1949 and 1954. The Hebrew date is hard to read on the photo.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1091 Posts |
The first three coins on the bottom row are from Turkey.
Renal is from Turkey and can tell you about these.
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Moderator
Australia
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The top three are indeed from Saddam's Iraq, 25 fils 1975, 50 fils 1981 and and 250 fils 1981. The date on the Israeli one (bottom right) is Jewish year (5)714, or 1954 AD.
Technically, the bottom-left three are from different parts of the Ottoman Empire, which ruled most of the pre-WWI Middle East. The one on the left is hard to see, but looks most like one of the Turkish gold "cedid mahmudiye" coins (KM 645), accession date 1233, regnal year 28 = 1834 AD. The middle one is Egypt, 2 qirsh, accession date 1293, regnal year 33 = 1909 AD. The one of the right is Turkey, 20 para, accession date 1327, regnal year 4 = 1912 AD.
I'm not familiar with the "cedid mahmudiye" coins, and Krause doesn't give a fineness for this coin, but I'm pretty sure that even debased gold wouldn't look that... brassy. It's probably a copy, but check the weight as accurately as you can, just in case. It should be somewhere in the 1.58 to 1.60 gram range. It's a US$40 coin if real.
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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Valued Member
 Ireland
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thanks everyone for your help and knowledge.
hey sap, iv zero knowledge on the 'cedid mahmudiye' coins and unfortunatly I dont have an electronic weighing scales to be able to weight that coin, the image is indicating that its more 'brassy' than it actually looks, but you are probably right, it prob is a fake, but is this any help - its a very thin coin, I mean its so thin, its 'blade-like'? this shouldnt be should it?!
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Valued Member
Ireland
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i could make a new topic for these but there isn't any point. going through my collection, there is many coins that I'm unsure of, and there is people on this forum that will be able to identify all of them! so I will probably 'update' this topic regularly, if thats ok...?  i think these coins are from china, and I think the lower one is from Oman. I'm not 100%, and their year of mintage...havnt a clue.   thanks for any info received. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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The top three are Taiwanese coins.
Years are: 70, 83 and 73, which corresponds to 1981, 1994, and 1984 from left to right. All these are very normal coins.
My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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Forum Kid
Kuwait
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Bottom is Oman...
I used to live there.
You can buy a Lays chips packet with that much money!
I like your ottoman coins!
Nice lot of world coins!
TKC!
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Moderator
Australia
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To formalize what TKC said: the bottom one is from Oman, a 50 baisa from AH1400 (1979 AD).
Back to the little "gold" Ottoman coin: yes, real ones are supposed to be wafer-thin; that's just the way many Ottoman precious metal coins were made back then.
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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Valued Member
Ireland
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thanks gxseries and sap for the info.
iv got to stop assuming every coin I see with that type language is chinese!!!
sap - what on the oman coin corresponds to 'AH1400'? I must get my tiny brain to understand the system of their numericals!
my ottoman coin is 'wafer-thin' as you say, but you still think its a copy?
even if the coin weighed between 1.58 and 1.6gm, would this prove its genuine?
and TKC, I like my ottoman coins too!! :D
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Forum Kid
Kuwait
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The arabic numerals reading from left to right 1 4 0 0
The inscription on the bottom of the khanjar ( the funny looking curved blade design) States the Sultinate of Oman
TKC!
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Moderator
Australia
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The side without the large crossed-swords symbol in the centre is the side with all the numbers on.  On that side, the thing in the centre that looks like a large, triangular-ish "O" is Arabic "5". The small diamond next to it is an Arabic zero. Thus, "50" - the denomination. Below this is the date: I, an E-shape, and two diamonds. The I is a "1", the E-shape is a "4", and the diamonds are zeros again. Thus, "1400". The little gold coin: if it weighs correct, then it's probably real gold. Not necessarily genuine, though - "Jeweller's fakes", made of real gold for decoration purposes, might be common. A jeweller could probably give an opinion on this. 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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