Date palms on coins

I grow dates for a living and I was wondering, are there any coins from around the world that have date palms on them? I know there are a couple of Asian coins that have other kinds of palms, not date palms. and one of our own state quarters has palmetto, (also not a date palm) I would imagine they would most likely be from Middle East or North African countries where the date palms grow. I have seen them on the old Iraq Republic 50 note, but any on coins?

 

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i don't specifically collect foreign coins, but Roman, Judean, Iraq, other Biblical and middle east countries have also issued them.

Jim

 

thanks Jim-Gem I'll look for those.
can you give me a little more specifics so I can search and find some examples? dates, era, series, or denominations?

 

I think these may be date palms:


Bahrain - 10 Fils - 1992



Iraq - 5 Fils - 1967


Iraq - 100 Fils - 1972


Qatar - 10 Dirhams - 1973



United Arab Emirates - 1 Fils - 1973

 

Saudi Arabia - 2 Ghirsh - 1959




Saudi Arabia - 4 Ghirsh - 1958



Saudi Arabia - 5 Halala - 1987

 

Here is a new coin from the Israel Mint. I know date palms grow around the Sea of Galilee, but I'm not sure if these are date palms.

 

All are date palms jlblonde.
Also all Bahrain coins from 1965 had date palms on them, I will take a couple of pictures if I get the time later.

 

O-o-oh! I have a big collection of a coins with a palms!

 

Liberia.

 

Gambia.

 

Although it's not the main subject on the reverse, here's also a date palm :


Siculo-Punic, AE16
264-241 BC
Head of Tanit left
Horse right and palm tree
1.75 gr, 16 mm
Ref : SNG Cop. 111

Q

 

Wow, nice ones. Liberia and Gambia are not (Liberia is coconut Gambia, not sure but not date) but all the others are. I would like to find some for sale if anyone is selling. I'm not looking for rare, but rather just nice quality common year for fair price. I like all of those with dates on them and would love one of each type.
Any more out there?

 

That's a nice one, Sir. I wish mine looked as good.

 

The Gambia coin has a Sago palm. Kinda looks like a giant pineapple.

I know, I have to plant the bloody things all the time. Ouch!

A needle stuck me in the vein once and wow did my arm swell up.


Post by Tony Spencer:

"The plant is called a Sago Palm and its highly poisonous to both pets and humans. A chemical in the plant called cycasin is toxic and often causes permanent liver damage as well as neurological damage if enough of the poison is absorbed by the body. The seeds are the most poisonous part of the plant and the effects on humans are seizures, coma and death."

 

Please do. I would like to see those coins.

Joe

 

jlblonde

Well date palm thorns are not as poisonous but they do cause some serious irritation, but mainly they are as big and hard as a framing nail and as sharp as a needle. have a couple of scars to prove it. those may not be date palm but they are still beautiful palms and beautiful coins.

 

Softmentor,

Here's an article you may be interested in. It deals with date palm gender identification.

[h=1]Qatar’s breakthrough research on palm trees to help genetic studies[/h]
hxxp://www.habibtoumi.com/2011/05/3...search-on-palm-trees-to-help-genetic-studies/

 

I took a couple of pictures of single coins but the results were not good, so I will attache pictures of the proof set only Bahrain PS2, if you wait for long enough you can get it for less than 35$, it contains 1 silver coin.

KM# 1 - 1 Fils was used for few years only then cancelled because of it's low value.
KM# 2 to 6, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 fils all have the same date "1965" and used until a new series was introduced in 1992.
KM# 7 - 250 Fils, FAO issue has two dates, 1969 mintage 50,000, and 1983 mintage 3,000.
KM# 8 - 500 Fils, opening of a town, this one does not have a date palm on it , it has 0.4704 oz. ASW. mintage 50,000

there is also a sterling silver set with the same coins.

Side Note:

For palm trees on middle eastern coins there is a 99% chance that it is a date palm.

 

very nice set! do you have a link where I could buy one?

 

jlblonde !!! ALERT !!! POSSIBLE VIRUS LINK !!!
Beware that when I clicked that link, by virus software came up with a serious alert.
Thank you though, I am familiar with that research. Until now the only way we could tell was to wait for the first flower to show. Since it takes 5 to 10 years, sometimes even more, for a seedling to show it first flower, that is a lot of land, water and other resources being used. Still, we do not really do a lot with seedlings, mostly we propagate from known quality varieties. Very helpful though if you are trying to do some breeding research.

Again, since that link came up with a virus, you may want to double-check your computer for a virus! Just to make sure it didn't infect you.