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Bulgaria
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 10 francs? African coin?  Edited by bobo13
07/02/2009 4:05 pm
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Poland
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Ethiopia 10 cents (1977).
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 Bulgaria
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United States
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Ethiopia sure likes their lions.
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Thailand
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I have the above coin and the 5 cent version with the same (Ethiopian) script on the obverse. But I've recently acquired a newer 5 cent but the writing below the lion is different. Can anyone help with translation? The Ethiopian script must be one of the most difficult, after Arabic, if your not famaliliar with them.  |
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 Australia
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The "writing below the lion" should be the date; it is on the one in the OP. The table at the front of Krause will give you the translations of the alphanumerics; the picture of yours, vic, is not quite large enough for me to read them. Quote:
Ethiopia sure likes their lions. The old monarchy used the crowned Lion of Judah as it's symbol because the emperors claimed descent from the biblical King Solomon. When the communists took over in 1977, they chose to replace it with an uncrowned lion (much as the Bulgarian lion and Polish eagle lost their crowns when the communists took over those places). 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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Thailand
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Hi Sap Sorry to bug you again. I've checked the alphanumerics in my Krause as you suggested but I still can't make head or tail of them (ah maybe they're upside-down!) I've rescanned at a higher resolution, any help? Vic  |
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Australia
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Hmm. The glyph on the left is certainly a number, "2"; Numbers can be disttinguished from letters by the curvy lines above and below the main character. In this case, I suspect the other two characters to be either the word or an abbreviation of the word for "thousand" - ie, this coin was struck in EE 2000 (= 2008 AD). New, indeed.  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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Thailand
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Thanks for that Sap you're a star.
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