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Valued Member
United Arab Emirates
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Hey all! I'm a new collector from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. I tend to collect Ancient Islamic numismatics, and sometimes late Islamic coins from the Ottoman period, I also collect world gold coins. Here's an example of what I collect, it is an ancient Islamic gold dinar from the Umayyad Dynasty, under the reign of the famous caliph 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. It was struck in Damascus year 80 (Hijra calender), which is late 8th century I believe.  I'm 19 years old and I've been collecting them for a little over 3 years. I'm one of those "serious" collectors, because I tend to study a lot about a coin before I purchase it, that is why I like to purchase reference books, and even sometimes read history, even if not related to numismatic history. I haven't seen much specialists in Islamic coins in this forum except for the Egyptian user and also Sap, hope I could be of help to those in need of identifying Islamic coins, though I am not able to identify Islamic coins from the Indian region, for example the Mughal Empire (some sources don't even consider them Islamic, but rather under the Indian category). |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Hello Mohammad, welcome to the forums from Eastern Canada.
The mosque I used to go to had a couple of UAE immigrants. Seems like an amazing place!
I have picked up a few Sassanian coins and admire Islamic coins (specifically anything from Ummyad Spain). Every since I started practicing Islam I have wanted to learn more about their coins. I can't wait to see what you post over the y ears.
Yes, Sap is an expert at pretty much everything. He likes to pretend that he has a hard time reading Arabic but he is just being modest.
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 United Arab Emirates
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Hey Harmonica,
Thank you for the kind words! :)
Interesting, would love to know what made them immigrate from a tax-free country haha. In all seriousness, Canada is much more beautiful in terms of scenery!
Likewise, I'm a huge fan of of the Umayyads of al-Andalus, been there last summer, and it is my favorite historical destination so far!
I will keep you updated with my pickups, is there a specific subforum where I can post recent pickups?
Again, thanks so much for the kind words, truly appreciate it. Would love to see your Islamic coins :)
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Canada
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Well, I can tell you what happens if you want. I went to school at Cape Breton University. The island was rich as it produced steal and coal. All the miners unionized and wanted more money for their work and the price of what they mined started to go down. Sadly to say all the mines were closed and the island only source of income was the university. We have a great petroleum engineering program so people from all over the Middle East come to out school and pay big bucks to study. Once they graduate they go back to their home country. As for a specific thread in the main forum we have a "Counting List to Show off Your Coins" thread. https://goccf.com/t/32990 |
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Canada
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mohammadaak! That's a beautiful coin. |
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United States
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to CCF -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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United Arab Emirates
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Welcome to the CCF mohammadaak :-)
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United States
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Welcome Mohammadaak,
Greetings from Boston and welcome to the forum. You will not find a more knowledgeable forum of numismatic collectors than right here. I had been studying this my whole life and after having only been here about 5 months I have realized that I haven't even scratched the surface.
Love the ancient gold. Such a beautiful material to make currency from. It's a shame that so much of it has been melted down through history.
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to the Community! |
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United States
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to CCF. |
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Hello and welcome.  Let me just correct some statements given above. I am not an "expert" in Islamic coins, nor would I consider myself an "expert" in any other coin field. There is an English saying: "Jack of all trades, master of none". That's me: I know (or try to learn) a little bit about everything numismatic, but I don't go deep enough into anything to become an expert at it. For example, the coin posted by the OP: I can't read it, without my books handy. Specifically, "Arabic coins and how to read them" by Richard Plant. All I can tell about the date, without my books, is that the date - and I'm not 100% certain it is the date - is a single word, but I couldn't tell you which word it is. "Eighty" sounds believable to me.  Quote:
...though I am not able to identify Islamic coins from the Indian region, for example the Mughal Empire (some sources don't even consider them Islamic, but rather under the Indian category). That's a separate thread's worth of discussion right there. Basically, Western cataloguers don't want to mess up their nice, neat "These are Islamic and these are not" classification by adding Indian coins into the mix, because it's very difficult to consider which "Indian coins" are "Islamic" and which are not. Just because an Indian coin has Arabic/Farsi writing on one side, or even both sides, does not mean the leader that issued it was a Muslim. It is much simpler to simply lump them all together as "Indian". 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
United Arab Emirates
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Thank you all! Mayflower, I understand what you're saying, and I truly believe this is the best platform for numismatics.
It is certainly a shame many of the world's historical gold was melted down, I would consider us preserving history when collecting them :)
Sap, even if you're an expert, at least you know your sources and seem to be one of very few here that can read Arabic coins, it's good that you use a book, I also use books for Arab Sasanian dirhams (or drachmas like some call it), since I can't read Pahlavi, only Arabic. Your last point proves how inexperienced I am with Indian coins haha. The only Indian coins I've ever collected were the Mughal square Rupees from the Emperor Akbar. As for the rest, I'm clueless..
Can someone help me out, how do you quote a statement to reply to it? I've never been to any type of forums before.
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Can someone help me out, how do you quote a statement to reply to it? I've never been to any type of forums before. Click on the reply to post link below instead of using the "quick reply" first, then under "format media" click the button for "insert quote" (second from the end) and paste the text you want to reply to between the code (cursor should be already set where you need it). Then put your response under the code. If that doesn't make sense, just try it a couple times and you'll catch on. And |
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