posted on May, 20 2012 @ 05:48 PM
reply to post by GogoVicMorrow
Yup, hard to keep it straight.
Have to look them up every time.
I have some old Lira coins from Italy, one is bimetal.
And one from Iran, bimetal also. Spent some time looking online to decode the date. Arabic dates are complicated. Start with a certain year, add a
certain constant to it.
I so have no idea what I am doing...
oh wait, Persian, I mea persian date, Iran is Persian not Arab...
You see the characters on the bottom of the image. That is the date. But to make sense of it you have to add a number to it.
www.worldcoindatabase.com...
So my coin characters are 1376 (I think) add 621.... = 1997
Lira coin looks like this
THe date is really small but I think it says 1987. THey use the Euro now, not Lira....
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