Posted 05/26/2008 03:13 am
UAE: the smaller ones are 1 fils (that's pronounced like "false", but with a I rather than an A), and all but #4 are dated 1973. #4 is 1975. The larger one #6 is a 5 fils, and is also dated 1973. All are FAO coins.
Jordan: the 5 fils is 1978, the 10 fils is 1974.
Kuwait: 5 fils 1977, 10 fils 1979.
Thailand: the reverses are all upside down, and the pics are too small to clearly read a date in most cases; the brass ones are probably all from the "frozen date 2500" series, meaning they were issued sometime after 2500 Buddhist Era (1957 AD). The larger silvery one is a 1 baht dated 2517 Buddhist Era (= 1974 AD); it's a one-year-type, but doesn't appear to commemorate anything.
Israel: Easier than normally the case for Israeli coins, because these were only issued in two years, 1949 and 1954. Yours are both 1954. Denominations are 25 and 50 prutah.
Grab yourself a Krause catalogue, if you don't have one already; even a secondhand one several years old is still an excellent resource for identifying coins. The table at the front, with all the different numeral systems used on coins, is especially useful and would answer most of the questions you've asked in this thread. I'd suggest trying to get a 2006 or 2005 edition: still new enough to be usable, but dating from before "2001 to date" was split off from "1901 to 2000" and made a separate book.
Jordan: the 5 fils is 1978, the 10 fils is 1974.
Kuwait: 5 fils 1977, 10 fils 1979.
Thailand: the reverses are all upside down, and the pics are too small to clearly read a date in most cases; the brass ones are probably all from the "frozen date 2500" series, meaning they were issued sometime after 2500 Buddhist Era (1957 AD). The larger silvery one is a 1 baht dated 2517 Buddhist Era (= 1974 AD); it's a one-year-type, but doesn't appear to commemorate anything.
Israel: Easier than normally the case for Israeli coins, because these were only issued in two years, 1949 and 1954. Yours are both 1954. Denominations are 25 and 50 prutah.
Grab yourself a Krause catalogue, if you don't have one already; even a secondhand one several years old is still an excellent resource for identifying coins. The table at the front, with all the different numeral systems used on coins, is especially useful and would answer most of the questions you've asked in this thread. I'd suggest trying to get a 2006 or 2005 edition: still new enough to be usable, but dating from before "2001 to date" was split off from "1901 to 2000" and made a separate book.
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