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durkastani Valued Member United States 452 Posts	Posted 05/12/2015 05:44 am I don't read Arabic. Report this Post to the Staff

X2an Pillar of the Community Sweden 1078 Posts	Posted 05/12/2015 05:46 am Normal persian calender year 1338, but I don't know what it converts to in gregorian date.. I think 1950's, but I'm not sure. Edited by X2an 05/12/2015 05:48 am Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 05/12/2015 07:06 am I agree with 1338, but I don't think that is a Hejira date. 1338 Hejira = 1811. That is not right with this coin. Krause lists 1338 as an "SH" date. The dating is in Arabic-Turkish numerals, but the script over the head is Farsi (Iranian). Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16867 Posts	Posted 05/12/2015 09:21 am "SH" is "Solar Hejira". The "normal" Islamic calendar uses the lunar year, of 354 days; the Persian solar Hejira calendar uses the same starting point (AD 622) as Year 1, but uses solar years the same length as the "tropical year" (365.242189 days). The SH calendar is used only on coins of Iran and Afghanistan. SH 1338 converts to AD 1959. Quote: I don't read Arabic. The legends and numerals on this coin are actually Persian, not Arabic. They look similar enough under most circumstances, but they are not the same. 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
durkastani Valued Member United States 452 Posts	Posted 05/12/2015 2:43 pm Thanks for the help y'all! :). That's kind of neat to know. Now just need to learn how to read the numbers lol. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16867 Posts	Posted 05/12/2015 6:23 pm Quote: Now just need to learn how to read the numbers lol. Let Wikipedia be your friend. 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
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 05/12/2015 6:43 pm I actually learnt the Arabic number characters in a very practical way. I helped drive a double deck bus from India to Europe, way back in 1970. Times were more peaceful then. I learnt the Arabic characters for numbers from the need to understand distances on road signs. We camped on one night on the Southern shore of the Caspaian Sea. I could not speak Arabic. I was approached by a boy while walking along the beach. It occurred to me to pick up a stick, and write the numbers '1 to 10' in Arabic in the sand. I sucessfully completed this task, and he congratulated me in a sort of 'international sign language'. I still have a colour slide of my writings in the sand to prove it. Report this Post to the Staff
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