Arabic coin - Dont know where from?

[thedigger]

This has had a debate going in our house since i found it amongst the cother coins.

Please put us all out of our misery.

I can say it looks Arabic (from the writing).

It is about the size of a new 2 pence piece (British)

Would weigh about the same as above also.

But thats about all the information i can give at the moment, sorry.

This coin has a stamp on it 1321.

But is that really the date?

Did they really make perfectly round coins in that era?

Or is it a token and what i have mistaken for a date is a number mark?

Is it real?

Where is it from?

Hope you PROFESSIONALS on here can help with this one please.

cheers

Ive put photo's of back and front and also the date, which has been taken with a digi-cam through a glass in order to maganify, hope it is veiwable?

[scottishmoney]

Morocco.

[thedigger]

Morocco.

Cheers, seem to be "not as rare" as i thought that it would be by all accounts, using one site, but another site seems to think that it is rare as tey have a coin up for sale with a picture (same coin) no price but in large letters the word Rare" across it??

So it really was the date of 1321 ........I wonder how many peoples hands that has passed through?

thanks again mate

[Peter]

Morocco.

Cheers, seem to be "not as rare" as i thought that it would be by all accounts, using one site, but another site seems to think that it is rare as tey have a coin up for sale with a picture (same coin) no price but in large letters the word Rare" across it??

So it really was the date of 1321 ........I wonder how many peoples hands that has passed through?

thanks again mate

Hi

As it is an Islamic coin the date of 1321 is approx 1903 in our calender.

still interesting and worth research.

Regards

Peter

[thedigger]

Hi

As it is an Islamic coin the date of 1321 is approx 1903 in our calender.

still interesting and worth research.

Regards

Peter

Hello Peter,

Oh my day is getting worse

So the Islamic dating is completely different, i did wonder why the coin over 600 years old was in reasonable condition and still perfectly round? there in lies my ignorance and amateur knoweledge on dating and more-so the coin profession in general .

I will eventualy get round to acquiring more information on this coin and its value if any at all but i want to sort out and sell the British coins first....i think....Oh i dunno i will just go with the flow

Once again Peter thank you very much for clearing the dating up for me

cheers mate!

[scottishmoney]

With the Moroccan and most other Arabic dated coins in Hejira dating - you can just add 621 to the date to come up with the date in Christian years. The one exception I can think of are Persian/Iranian dates which flipped back and forth and are a complete PITA to try to figure out.

[JOHN]

Hi All,

Happy New Years!

This is my first post and I can help a bit with this one.

It is a 5 MAZUNAS with a mintage of 720,000. In fine condition it's cat value is $4.00 us dollars.Cat #; Y#16.1

My catalog is a 2004 edition so the value could be off a bit. Cheers, John.

[thedigger]

Hi All,

Happy New Years!

This is my first post and I can help a bit with this one.

It is a 5 MAZUNAS with a mintage of 720,000. In fine condition it's cat value is $4.00 us dollars.Cat #; Y#16.1

My catalog is a 2004 edition so the value could be off a bit. Cheers, John.

Thanks very much JOHN.

To be honest, the condition mine is in will not make that type of value as you can see from the photos.

Unfortuneatly i didnt find the valuable coin

It was the date that threw me i thought i had something special.

Cheers anyway mate

Happy New Year

[Peckris]

Yup - Islamic calendars start from Muhamad so that's a good few hundred years after the Christian (aka world domination) calendar

[thedigger]

Yup - Islamic calendars start from Muhamad so that's a good few hundred years after the Christian (aka world domination) calendar

Luckily enough ive only found a small number of Islamic coins...coin collecting and the finding of a noice coin is far too complicated for me without having to add or take-away hundreds of years to get the Real date