Help With Background On Moroc 20 Francs

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tampabaygrampa Valued Member United States 408 Posts	Posted 02/13/2011 4:55 pm Hi, I have a coin from Morocco. It says "moroc" "20 Francs" The other side has a star and 1371. That is obviously not the date, in the calendar we recognize. Can anyone help. Thanks, Jim Report this Post to the Staff

Bacchus2 Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2887 Posts	Posted 02/13/2011 5:13 pm It sounds like Krause (Y) 50 - Aluminum Bronze - 0.25 F, 0.50 VF, 1.00 XF I think that year translats to 1951 My Papal States coin collection: https://diadumenian.com/Papal%20Sta...0States.html Medieval coins collection: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...0Europe.html Indian Rupee Collection: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...0Rupees.html Minor world Silver: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...20coins.html Report this Post to the Staff
svslav Pillar of the Community United States 2605 Posts	Posted 02/13/2011 5:25 pm Here's some info on Lunar Hejira calendar that is used in many Islamic countries. Your coin was struck in Paris, at that time Morocco had the French Protectorate status. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16845 Posts	Posted 02/13/2011 8:13 pm Here is the WorldCoinGallery page for this coin. Most Middle-Eastern countries date their coins using the Islamic calendar. But most Middle-Eastern countries use Eastern Arabic numerals to write the numbers of the date, which look sufficiently different from our "Western Arabic numerals" for Westerners not to notice or get confused. For example, this Egyptian coin carries both an AD date (on the left) and an AH date (on the right), but they're written in Eastern Arabic numerals. Only Morocco and Tunisia write the AH date on their coins using Western numerals, and the Tunisian coins like this one are dual-dated. So the confusion only really arises with Moroccan 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
tampabaygrampa Valued Member United States 408 Posts	Posted 02/13/2011 9:18 pm So the 1371 converts to 1952? Also, thanks for your responses. I really appreciate them. Jim Report this Post to the Staff
svslav Pillar of the Community United States 2605 Posts	Posted 02/13/2011 9:50 pm There's no one-to-one correspondence between AH and AD dating, because [Lunar] Hejira calendar goes about moon cycles, so their year is shorter and the start of a new year keeps moving around. In particular AH 1371 started on October 2, 1951. So, part of it was in 1951, part in 1952. There's also Solar Hejira calendar that has the same length of year as we do. Report this Post to the Staff
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