texascello Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 I have 6 coins here that I am unable to identify, mainly because I can't find a good translation of the languages on them. I've put links to pictures of the front and back of each coin (except for the last one, coin 6, which is the same on the front and back.) If anyone could please tell me the country of origin and anything else about the coins, that would be awesome! 1. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/28395...host=good-times http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/29889...host=good-times 2. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/27369...host=good-times http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/26438...host=good-times 3. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/29232...host=good-times http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/23769...host=good-times 4. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/24831...host=good-times http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/25110...host=good-times 5. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/27663...host=good-times http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/24825...host=good-times 6. http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/20505...host=good-times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 The first coin is a Japanese 1 yen, dated Showa 58. That would make it dated 1983. Third coin looks like it's from Nepal, fifth from Thailand. Welcome to coinpeople by the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithuania Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 The first one is Japanese, as gxseries said. The second one is Iran one rial, dated AH1359 KM1183. The third one is Nepalese 2 paisa, probably KM753. The fourth is Tunisia 100 millim coin dated 1960 - KM309. Fifth is a Thailand coin, sorry cannot help with the date on this.. And the last one is somekind of a token. As I do not collect tokens, I can hardly help you with that one. Good luck. Sarunas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 The fifth coin, from Thailand, is a 1 satang Y#57, with date BE2485, which is 1942AD. The sixth one is a token of 25 ore from Tivoli, an attraction park in Copenhagen (Denmark). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grivna1726 Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 6.http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/20505...host=good-times A slight spelling variation found this link. I'm not sure if there's a connection but it looks probable to me. "Tivoli A/S provides amusement park management services through its subsidiary. The company’s subsidiary, Tivoli International, owns and operates concert halls and amusement venues. Tivoli A/S, formerly known as A/S Kjobenhavns Sommer-Tivoli, was founded in 1843 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texascello Posted July 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 Thank you everyone! This really helped me out. Also, how do you determine the date of a coin just by those numbers (i.e. KM753, AH1359 KM1183 etc.)? Is there some kind of table or something that gives you the date for these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grivna1726 Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 Thank you everyone! This really helped me out. Also, how do you determine the date of a coin just by those numbers (i.e. KM753, AH1359 KM1183 etc.)? Is there some kind of table or something that gives you the date for these? The KM number as in "KM-753" or "KM-1183" is a reference to the number assigned to that coin type in the Krause-Mishler ("KM") catalog of world coins. The KM number refers to the design type (not the date). AH1359 is a year according to Islamic dating. I'm not sure, but I think it starts with some event in Mohammed's life which was roughly sometime around 700 or so AD by our calendar. I'm sure someone knowledgeable in Islamic coinage can provide a better answer (because I'm too lazy to look up the details right now) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturzny Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 AH stands for Anno Hegira, or the number of years since the Hegira, which was the flight of Mohammed from Mecca to Medina. This occured in 622 C. E. (or A. D. if you prefer). You might think you could get the Christian (C. E.) date by adding 622 to the AH date, but you would be wrong, because the Islamic calendar is lunar, not solar. For relatively recent dated coins you can add 580 to get an approximation to the C. E. date, but if you go back 400 years or so the factor is more like 590. It increases as you go continue to earlier dates until you get to 622 at AH 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texascello Posted July 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 So what would be the dates of coin #2 (from Iran) and #3 (from Nepal) be?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthos Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Regarding the Nepal coin (Third coin) It reads - Obverse - "Shri Bhawani" "Dui Paisa" (two paisa) Reverse - "Nepal 2026 (This is as per Vikram Samvat calender, the year in AD is 1969) "Shri 5 Birendra Vikram Shah Dev" (After the honorific 'Shri' in front of the kings name, the numeral 5 is traditionally used to signifiy more respect as in saying 'shri, shri.... five times). A link for Vikram Samvat calender and corresponding years in AD is given below http://numismaticon.com/encyclopedia/calendars/nepalese Hope this has been helpful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturzny Posted July 19, 2008 Report Share Posted July 19, 2008 Iran used the Islamic lunar calendar (AH) dating until the Pahlavis came to power after WWI, when they switched to dates based on the solar calendar. In the coin catalogs these dates are denoted with "SH" instead of "AH". When the Shah was overthrown, the Islamic Republic kept this style of dating. Your 1 rial is dated SH1359 which corresponds to 1980 and thus is a coin from the Islamic Republic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texascello Posted July 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2008 Thank you all so very much for all of your help! I truly appreciate all of it. I wish I had found this site earlier... what a great help you have all been. Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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