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Birr Or Half Birr

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 Posted 11/08/2009  5:11 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add acidic1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I think this is a half Birr. What do you think?.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...:RTQ:US:1123
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 Posted 11/08/2009  7:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add snowman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like a Birr to me. The seller states that it is silver dollar sized and Numismaster says it should be 40mm. This seems to match up.
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It is exactly one birr, the legend under the lion states that. By the way the date is 1889 but it's Ethiopian era, which means it is AD 1897.
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