Need Help Identifying Age Of African Coins

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batfink New Member Australia 2 Posts	Posted 08/30/2013 04:00 am Hi, I have 18 of these coins and I'm fairly certain they are African, North African to be more precise but I need some expertise to nail exact era and nation. Okay, I got them from a chap who has just returned to Africa to be a missionary and his parents were missionaries there and even his grand parents were missionaries there in the late 1800's. So, he had a lot of old African coins. I've sold a few Mombassa coins from 1888 marked British East Africa Co for him and they have a similar scales image on them to these. Also, those Mombassa coins have Arabic and English on them. These just have Arabic and scales though. So, are these earlier, from the same nation or are they from somewhere else entirely? No guesses please, just knowledge- if you know or can help me out in identifying, I'd be grateful. Cheers Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16837 Posts	Posted 08/30/2013 04:39 am Hello and welcome. They are all pysas from the Sultanate of Zanzibar. 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
Sap Moderator Australia 16837 Posts	Posted 08/30/2013 04:42 am Oh, and they're all of the type dated "1299", which in the Islamic calendar is equivalent to AD 1882. Listed as KM# 1 in Krause. NGC database page. 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
batfink New Member Australia 2 Posts	Posted 08/30/2013 05:17 am Oh, thank you so much Sap. Much appreciated. Report this Post to the Staff
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