I just received some Arab world coins from my grandfather's time in the Middle East, mostly before and after World War II. I will try to post some photos over the next few days. I have zero expertise in this area, so I was wondering if anyone could steer me towards some good online references for identifying them. Even just figuring out the date numbers would be a good start! Thanks, Keith
Numista (https://en.numista.com/catalogue/emirats_arabes_unis-1.html) may help, but if you can't read Arabic you might have trouble even knowing what to search for. Posting some photos here may be the quickest way to identify them, unless you possess countries of origin of the coins.
Learn the 10 arabic numbers, it is not hard as our numbers are descended from them. You can see a 2 in an arabic 2, and so on. Then you can read the denominations and dates which helps. Dates would be AH Hadji dates about 600 years lower than CE dates. (AD) so 1300 AH is about 1900 AD.
Fortunately I have software which will convert. Some of the current Arab coins have both AD dates and AH dates For Example this 2007 Egyptian Pound The first date just to the left of the ONE is 2007AD in Arabic which converts to AH1428. The second Arab date AH1428 to the right of POUND which converts back to 2007AD loads of fun
Get an old issue of SCWC. You can pick up one online for $10. Even if it is 10 years old it will still suffice for your purposes. https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?...min_year=&max_year=&mode=advanced&st=sr&ac=qr
it's a tool that comes with Exact Change Coin collection software by Wild Man. I used to use it all the time for collections but haven't updated it in a while. Pretty powerful program. Has several language converters.
