Money From Afghanistan: What Is The Correct Date?

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rigglez New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 07/24/2012 8:42 pm I have a some paper money from a few Arab countries. I can read some Arabic and have found the dates. I also know that they are using the Islamic calendar. I'm trying to date them using our Gregorian calendar. I will attach some pictures of the money. I have a 100 afghani note that has the date of 1383 on it. When I convert it to AD using numerous online converters, I get the year 1963. When I research the note online, all the websites that show that particular afghani note say that it is 2004 AD, which considering the security strip, it appears to be. Why do I get this discrepancy? I used the same converters for other Arab notes and didn't get any discrepancy between the converter and various websites. Is the 1963 AD year not an issue date but in reference to something else? (notice the coin and the note have the same date on them...again, what year is the coin and does the date represent something else?) Report this Post to the Staff

aiglet7 Pillar of the Community Canada 695 Posts	Posted 07/25/2012 12:22 am Welcome to CCF. If you do not already use "Creounity Time Machine" you may find it of some help in converting from the Solar Hejira which both Afghanistan and Iran use. The Lunar Hejira is used by most other Arab countries. The link is:- http://apps.creounity.com/time_mach....php&lang=en Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16832 Posts	Posted 07/25/2012 12:25 am Hello and welcome. The cause of the confusion is that Afghanistan and Iran both use a different "Islamic calendar" to the one the rest of the Islamic world uses. Both calendars count Year 1 as AD 622, but Afghanistan uses the Solar year (same length as ours, 365 days) while the normal Islamic calendar uses the Lunar year (354 days). Thus while Local Year 1383 converts to AD 1963 in most other Islamic countries, it converts to AD 2004 in Iran and Afghanistan. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
rigglez New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 07/25/2012 11:13 am I've heard the Iran (and Afghanistan) calendar referred to as the Persian calendar. Do you know why Afghanistan uses the solar (Islamic calendar) as opposed to the typical lunar one which most other Arab countries use? Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5174 Posts	Posted 07/25/2012 12:02 pm I remember that one time when I had a very worn Arabic coin, and no serious way to determine what it was (as I couldn't read Arabic, and whatever survived of the inscription was very seriously worn anyway). The date fortunately survived though (1313 AH); in the lunar hijra, it was equivalent to something in the late 19th century, but in the Persian solar hijra, to 1935. I didn't believe it could be from the 19th century, so I googled for the images of coins Iran and Afghanistan had in 1935, and found my coin almost immediately: Afghanistan 25 pul Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16832 Posts	Posted 07/25/2012 9:49 pm The Iranian calendar was adopted in Afghanistan in 1922 as part of the general nationalistic modernizing of the country in the 1920s. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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