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j_hewes Valued Member United States 52 Posts	Posted 10/10/2015 12:34 am Hi, I have seen many Islamic coins which carry both an ascension date and a reign year. My understanding is that the "minting" date of a coin should be got by adding the two. So for example, a coin dated AH1233/32 would really have been minted in 1233 + 32 -1 = AH1264. Take 1 off because the first year of the reign is year 1. Am I doing this right? It works for Japanese coins; I thought it would apply as well to Islamic coins. Thanks, John Report this Post to the Staff

jjwabraham Valued Member United States 288 Posts	Posted 10/12/2015 07:34 am Hi John, Yes you are correct. It is the same as Japanese dating, with the exception that Islamic coins, most notably countries that were part of the Ottoman Empire, almost always have the ascension year on the coin, whereas Japan doesn't put that on theirs. Many times the regnal year is on the opposite side of the ascension date. Good luck and welcome, I too am new, John Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 188952 Posts	Posted 10/12/2015 10:15 am Interesting. I just learned something new. Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
OspreyCoins Pillar of the Community United States 932 Posts	Posted 10/12/2015 10:27 am Interesting... Report this Post to the Staff
TypeCoin971793 Pillar of the Community United States 6370 Posts	Posted 10/12/2015 1:34 pm Same with Chinese and Roman coins. Maybe even Greek coins. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16841 Posts	Posted 10/13/2015 05:45 am "Regnal dates" are the earliest forms of dates being put on coins; it is a practice going back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. While once common, only two countries continue it regularly: Japan and the Vatican City. Though one could perhaps argue that the Taiwanese calendar is a continuation of the old Chinese Imperial regnal year calendar. A variation on this theme is the dynastic calendar, where Year 1 is the accession of the dynasty's founder. North Korea is the latest in a long line of nations to date their coins this way. 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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