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In my research about Ottoman coins, I had to understand arabic numbers, because the Ottoman used arabic alphabet in formal issues. Although Arabic is a right to left language, the numbers are written left to right. Here is a chart that shows arabic numbers, when you replace these with the regular ones (1,2,3... etc) you will obtain the mint date of the coin. However, the date represented using these numbers will be either Hegirean or Julian (Ottoman Empire used Julian calendar for financial issues) There are several conversion tables or sites and I'm trying to find one in English  2 and 3 can be very tricky, considering that the coins will be at least a hundered years old. Correction: The calendar the Ottoman Empire used is not exactly Julian I guess, closer to Hegirean but not the same. In TR it's called "Rumi" (I still haven't figured out the exact calculation, but I use the converter of the Turkish History Foundation.) Edited by RenaL
01/26/2006 09:26 am
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 Turkey
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For example, this is a coin minted in the last Sultan Vahdeddin's time. 100 Kurus. The date says 1336 (Julien) at the bottom of the picture on the right. (couldn't decide what to call it, obverse or reverse) The figure on the left is Sultans signature, below that, the season is shown(2) 1336 is 1920 the first year it is minted. 2 below the Signature, means the second year-1921. It is quite complicated. It took me a while to learn it last week:)  Edited by RenaL
01/26/2006 09:31 am
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Netherlands
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Renal, nice coin, I miss it in my collection, if you have one spare...... ;-)
Greetings, Carl
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Valued Member
Netherlands
309 Posts |
Renal, nice coin, I miss it in my collection, if you have one spare...... ;-)
Greetings, Carl
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Pillar Of The Community
Turkey
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Hehe.
Sorry Carl, I don't have that one myself.
Posted it because thats the biggest image I could find in short time:)
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Netherlands
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Well Renal,
next time maybee more luck, I am already happy when I can get my para's and Kurush a littlemore complete, I have far out more holes then coins in my collection there.
Is it still possible to find them in Turkey, or did all tourist got them?
Greetings, Carl
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Pillar Of The Community
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LoL:)
There are too much for tourists.
They're still available for the interested people:)
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Valued Member
Netherlands
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Then you should make me quick a list with those you can offer Renal!!
Greetings, Carl
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Turkey
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Let's discuss that in some other topic Carl.
PS: According to the catalogue I got today, that coin is defined as RR (extra rare) :)
Edited by RenaL
01/26/2006 09:28 am
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New Zealand
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Persian numerals are the same,except for the number 4.
The numerals in Central Asia for 0 & 5 are the reverse.
Aidan.
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