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Ireland
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Hi everyone, havnt posted here in a good while. I recently got a good few world coins, over 300 of them, from many different countries. However I have a few coins that I need identified, some I have a good indication, but I need correct state or watever. plus I presume the george 3rd one is just a token/fake? here are the pics:  other side:  i suppose if you want to refer to them on the pics, across use letters i.e Column A etc and down for numbers, such as Column A Number 5 say  any help is appreciated  |
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Norway
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Hi. This picture contains rather a lot of coins. It would be easier with smaller groups.
There are 10 coins from Iceland, all of them labelled "Island". 1 krona, 2 kronur, 50 aurar, 10 aurar, 1 eyrir....
If you limit yourself to 10 items a picture, I will give you a more comprehensive explanation. Feel free to remove the Icelandic ones first.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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A few more to pull out:
"Shqiperi" = Albania
"Eesti" = Estonia
Man with glasses (as 3 across, 4 down) = Thailand
Pyramids = Egypt
Eagle behind shield with vertical stars = Syria, or UAR
Man with "high" hair (2 across, 4 down) = Ethiopia
2 crossed flags behind star = Algeria
Nederland Antillen = Netherlands Antilles
Banque du Liban = Lebanon
"gear"-shaped aluminum coin, "1", 6 across, 1 down = Israel
10 across, 1 down, holed = Greece (10 lepta)
There are more, but that will get you started.
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08/07/2009 1:10 pm
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 Ireland
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thanks guys! big help already and your right, I will cut down the number, 10 at a time. here is 10 by themselves, if you even give the date on some that have different languages that would be great :)   Edited by Banjax
08/07/2009 4:23 pm
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United States
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2 that I recognize are the middle one in the first column which is from PRC 1 Jiao I think, and the to the right and down is Sri Lanka.
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United States
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Lotus is Iran, grapevine is Croatia
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Ireland
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@nod2003: PRC stands for? the goldie 5 one is sri lanka yes?
wd140: which ones are they again? (location please on photo)
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 Australia
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IN the second series of pics, we have:
Row 1: Mongolia and Croatia
Row 2: Algeria and Syria
Row 3: China (PRC) and Iran
Row 4: Guernsey and Sri Lanka
Row 5: Libya I think and... shouldn't the other one have something else on the other side?
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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Australia
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shouldn't the other one have something else on the other side? Never mind, I found it in the big pics... it's Egypt. The one I labelled "Libya" confused me... it's definitely Libyan, WCG labels it a 1/4 dinar, and the "date" is 1369, but AH 1369 is AD 1949/50, and this coin is clearly of recent manufacture (Krause gives a date for it of AD 2001/2). IN late 1949, the UN passed a resolution declaring that Libya ought to become independent, but I couldn't find anything else historically significant to occur in Libya at that time. Nor is it Gaddafi's year of birth (that would be 1361/1942) and as far as I can tell, this coin is not even commemorative in nature; the only reasonable interpretation of this date is a date of issue. It turns out that Libya does indeed use it's own peculiar version of the Islamic calendar, counting lunar years from the Death of the Prophet (regular Islamic calendars count from the Prophet's departure from Mecca). Wikipedia is silent on this calendar, but I found this website which outlines the various versions of it and conversions to and from it. DP 1369 was from 4 June 2001 to 23 May 2002. 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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Dates:
Row 2 Syrian 1996
Row 3 Iran AH 1382 = 1962
Row 5 1st one is Libya quarter Dinar restruck 2001-2002
Row 5 2nd Egypt, 25 piastres 1993
All other dates as on coins
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Belgium
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@thai-vic: Iran uses the Solar Hegira Era (SH, not AH), so SH1282 = 2003
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Valued Member
Ireland
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Brilliant, thank you thai-vic, bart and once more Sap! now I have another set of 10: I know the eagle with the stars on its chest is Syria (thanks to sap ;) ), but I also have ones with the same symbol but there is no stars on the eagles chest. I presume its still syria?  other side:  any help is appreciated! :) |
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Belgium
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first row: Kazakhstan 10 tenge, Pakistan 1 rupee, Mongola 200 tugrik, Israel 5 agorot, South Africa 5 cents
second row: Seychelles 5 cents, Laos 10 cent(ime)s, Egypt 10 piastres, Lybia 20 dirhams, Armenia 50 drams
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Australia
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OK, I've finally got some spare time to sit down and look at your big pics coin by coin. Here are some others that are noteworthy, or have not otherwise been addressed in this thread. Reference system used: R2C5 = second one down, fifth coin from the left. If rows and columns become ambiguous, I will try to give more qualitative directions. Here goes: R1C6: South Africa. Post-Apartheid South Africa has solved the problem of having 11 official languages by cycling them through the various denominations; each year, the name "South Africa" is rendered in a different language on each denomination. R1C7: this is the "George 3rd one" you mentioned in your OP, and yes indeed, it is "fake". Or rather, it's a card counter; the "good old days" legend gives it away. The coin the design is based on is the gold guinea. R1C8: Nepal. R2C1: Egypt 10 piastres 1992. R3C2 and C6: Kazakstan. R3C7: this symbol of a dagger and two crossed swords is very distinctively from Oman; in this case, it's a 10 baisa. The date 1390 translates to AD 1970; up to and including that date, the country was known as "Muscat and Oman" and it is under this name that you'll find the coin in Krause (KM 38). R3C9a (the bronze one with the portrait): Pakistan. R3C9b (the one with CSFR above the shield): from the Czech-Slovak Federal Republic, the last incarnation of Czechoslovakia, after the Velvet Revolution overthrew communism, but before the country split in two. R4C2: these Arabic coins with eagles on them can all look the same; ones like this with three stars on the shield are from Syria; this if the FAO 5 piastres 1971. R4C4: both this coin and the one below it are South African, again with different languages on different denominations. R4C6: Bulgaria 50 stotinki. R4C8 and 9: South Korea. Korean script can be readily distinguished from Chinese and Japanese characters by the repeated use of circles within the characters; Chinese and Japanese coins never do this. R5C2: Ethiopia. R5C10: Macao. R6C1: Morocco. R6C8 (the one with the two-headed coat of arms and the lettering that looks like all variants of U and J): Armenia. R6C9: Tunisia. R6C10: West African States, a monetary union mostly comprising of the former colonies of French West Africa. R7C1: Iran. R7C8: coins with the Soyombo are from Mongolia; this symbol was often used on coins, even in the communist period. This one is post-communist, a 200 tugrik from 1994. R8C9: Uzbekistan. All the others are either obvious, or have already been addressed. If there are any you're still unsure of or would like more info about, please ask. 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 the correction on the Iran date bart.
Dates not obvious on second batch:
Mongolia 1994, Israel JE5748 (1988 I think, but would need a more detailed pic), Egypt 1992, Libya 1975.
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Valued Member
Ireland
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thanks guys, and thank you for you time in determining the originality of my coins, its really appreciated even after all this help, I am still unsure (or more of lack of information) of a few coins, I tried following most of your directions sap but I got a bit confused at times, so iv decided to just put these few in a picture.   There is one I tink its swedish (far left). |
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