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DagonX Valued Member Poland 392 Posts	Posted 10/08/2008 4:16 pm Hi! Please, help me with these coins - the first one is definitely Ethiopia but want to know something more about this coin, the second is probably Ottoman (I see "tughra") or from Egypt (pyramids?). Maybe someone can tell me something more about them? Thanks! Coin 1 Coin 2 Report this Post to the Staff

chrisild Pillar of the Community Germany 1238 Posts	Posted 10/08/2008 5:29 pm The second one is from Egypt indeed. A 5 piastres coin with a "dual" date - 1984 on the left, 1404 (the AH year) on the right. Now the coin from Ethiopia ... hard to tell since AFAIK the face value is in words, not digits, and I cannot read the language. Christian Report this Post to the Staff
QuickSilver Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1077 Posts	Posted 10/08/2008 6:26 pm The Ethiopean coin is a 5 cents and is dated EE1936, which is 1944 in the western calendar. These were produced from 1944 until 1966 but with the date frozen. It is copper and has a mintage of 219,000,000. Report this Post to the Staff
DagonX Valued Member Poland 392 Posts	Posted 10/09/2008 05:15 am chrisild, leebreeze, thanks for help! Report this Post to the Staff
EgCollector Pillar of the Community Egypt 3470 Posts	Posted 10/09/2008 07:22 am 1984-1404AH Egypt 5 piastres KM#555.1 Aluminum-Bronze obv: Christian date left of denomination varities exists with narrow and wide rims Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16817 Posts	Posted 10/09/2008 08:31 am An additional bit of trivia on the Egyptian one: Coins have been around for some 2,600 years. The Pyramids have been around for even longer. Yet these coins, from 1984 AD, mark the very first appearance the Pyramids ever made on coins. 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
wwhitman Pillar of the Community United States 1415 Posts	Posted 10/09/2008 11:12 am Sap Say: Quote: An additional bit of trivia on the Egyptian one: That is a truly interesting fact. You would think that would have happened prior to 1984 Report this Post to the Staff
rogers Valued Member Canada 122 Posts	Posted 10/09/2008 12:47 pm I think I recognize the Arabic calligraphy on the second coin, it looks like an epigraph for one of the sultans/rulers of one of the Arabic countries: http://content.answers.com/main/con...hmuds_II.gif This one's Mahmud Han bin Abdulhamid muzaffer daima. Maybe someone else can confirm. Report this Post to the Staff
EgCollector Pillar of the Community Egypt 3470 Posts	Posted 10/09/2008 7:43 pm Quote: I think I recognize the Arabic calligraphy on the second coin, it looks like an epigraph for one of the sultans/rulers of one of the Arabic countries: http://content.answers.com/main/con...hmuds_II.gif This one's Mahmud Han bin Abdulhamid muzaffer daima. Maybe someone else can confirm. The arabic calligraphy has nothing to do with any Sultan since the coin is dated 1984 and Egypt has been declared a republic since the 1952 revolution. The last Sultan was Sultan Fouad and he became a King in 1922. The words are "Arab Republic of Egypt" and it is written in one of the Arabic handwriting types or designs similar to that used on the Ottoman coins, I think thats why you got confused. Report this Post to the Staff
rogers Valued Member Canada 122 Posts	Posted 10/09/2008 9:05 pm Thanks for correcting me As for the pyramid one, it's not the first appearance of any pyramid on a coin, but I don't know about Egyptian pyramids. (I have a 1964 Mexican coin with the Pyramid of the Sun:) Report this Post to the Staff
EgCollector Pillar of the Community Egypt 3470 Posts	Posted 10/09/2008 9:15 pm Quote: Thanks for correcting me As for the pyramid one, it's not the first appearance of any pyramid on a coin, but I don't know about Egyptian pyramids. (I have a 1964 Mexican coin with the Pyramid of the Sun:) I am sure that is not an Egyptian pyramid, but still it is a beautiful coin, thanks for sharing Report this Post to the Staff
chrisild Pillar of the Community Germany 1238 Posts	Posted 10/10/2008 06:05 am No, that Pyramid of the Sun is in Teotihuacán, not far from Mexico (City). Been there, climbed that, got a sunburn ... but I digress. Interesting that the Egyptian pyramids had not been on a coin until that issue came out. Had not realized that, maybe because other monuments such as the Sphinx (Giza) have been depicted since Egypt became a republic. By the way, according to the Schön catalog (in German) the coin shows the Cheops (Khufu), Chefren (Khafre) and Mykerinos (Menkaure) pyramids, and the country name in the "shape" of a tughra on the other side ... Christian Report this Post to the Staff
EgCollector Pillar of the Community Egypt 3470 Posts	Posted 10/10/2008 7:12 pm Thanks for the info Christian Report this Post to the Staff
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