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My niece gave me these recently, said a friend from Iran had given them to her. Can somebody tell me the denomination? Is there some place on line to look up stuff like this? Thanks. Jan   |
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It is 50 Dinars (your obverse is upside-down :)
The upside-down heart-like number is 5 and the dot is 0.
You can check (131231) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed , once you select the country you can click to see all of the coins in pictures, that helps a lot most of the time.
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Thanks, RenaL!
Sorry about being upside down. Is there a date on it?
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Yep, there is a date. In Arabic numerals it is 1328 or 1338, I can't figure out the third digit. You can check here and see if that is a two or three there. They use Jelali calendar so if it is 1328 it should correspond to 1950 AD, if 1338, then 1960 (may vary according to the month :) Edited by RenaL
02/12/2007 10:24 am
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Thanks, RenaL! I just got done looking up a bunch of coins, which I think I'll post about later. Some were from the Middle East. I was getting pretty good with the Arabic numbers, but I couldn't figure out why the date would say 1990-1400, or whatever.  Now I get it. Thanks. Jan |
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You're welcome, glad to help.
I learned that there are quite a couple of calendars just last year.
Luckily we have the internet now:)
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The third digit in the date on that coin is actually a "Persian 4", so that coin is actually SH 1348, or AD 1969 according to Krause.
In Persian numerals (also used in the Malayan states), the 4 and 5 and sometimes the 6 are differently shaped; all the others are identical to the numerals of the Ottoman-Arabic system.
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Oh, that's excellent. So, my Iranian coins are 1969 instead of 1999?
RenaL -- you said the obverse is upside down in my photo. Is that the obverse? Or the reverse? I would have thought the lion was the front.
This stuff is fascinating. I might have to get more serious about world coins.
Thanks, everybody.
Jan
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Well Jan, obverse, reverse, they're all relative  The side with the denomination can be considered as the "tails" -> reverse, then the Lion can be considered as the "heads" -> obverse. It seems I have to learn a lot more about my neighbouring countries's coins. Maybe Sap would give us a crash course  Edited by RenaL
02/13/2007 10:23 am
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