I find that one of the most difficult coins to date are the Israeli coins. Not only are there many variations of the same or similar coin, but several of the Hebrew numbers closely resemble one another, making it extremely difficult to make a determination. I thought I had found a site that made it really easy to convert these dates at http://www.collectionstudio.com/en/datescalculator/hebrew/, but after using the converter a few times, I discovered that it was giving me wrong gregorian dates. Unfortunately they made no provision for " that is part of the date on the coins, and I still can't figure out what the difference is between the apostophy and the other accent? mark. Anyway, I wonder if anyone who collects Israeli coins has a simple converter, or method for converting the Hebrew dates to Gregorian. I've been using the charts in the Kraus Catalog of World Coins, but find that I am making a lot of mistakes using it as well. The Hebrew and Arabic numbers are the most difficult for me to read, even moreso than the Japanese and Chinese dates, which is really pretty straight forward. Anyone care to comment on this? Regards, Bill
Welcome to the joys of reading World coins. Hebrew and Arabic are the most challenging. I still struggle but finally found the software to help. It is included with "Exact Change" coin collecting software by Wildman. It comes with several converters. Just type in the characters and it converts to annual or vice versa. Has helped me out a lot. You can download a trial version to see if it is what you need. I found it to be a very powerful software for organizing my collection. It also has currency section. http://exactchange.info/
Or try the "Creounity" Time Machine. http://creounity.com/apps/time_machine/index.php?go=israel.php&lang=en Christian
You might be getting inconsistent results because in every Gregorian year there are 2 Hebrew years. And vice versa, the year 5774 will take place during 2 normal years, 2013 and 2014. This is because Hebrew year changes in September. You might want to learn the system itself (which is actually very easy) and you wont need any converters and calculators anymore. There are only 2 pairs of letters that resemble each other, a bit of practice and you won't be able to make a mistake. I am saying this as someone who learned Hebrew as a second language, and it became pretty much like the first. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria
I have found them to be a bit difficult because the number symbols on the coins are often not quite the same as the symbols on the printed lists
Don't think he left voluntarily. But those converters seem to work OK for this kind of job. Christian
My problem isn't with hebrew years being spaced out over two gregorian years. Charts are of some help, but I find that charts vary in the way they depict the numbers, and that the numbers depicted on the actual coin sometimes does not resemble the depiction in the chart. I'll try the suggestions of sunlarson and chrisild. They are more responsive to my needs. I'm not really interested in learning the system itself with all its nuances. Since I collect world coins, I'm not prepared to learn some percentage of the worlds 196 country numbering systems. Regards, Bill QUOTE=Taxidermist;1621108]You might be getting inconsistent results because in every Gregorian year there are 2 Hebrew years. And vice versa, the year 5774 will take place during 2 normal years, 2013 and 2014. This is because Hebrew year changes in September. You might want to learn the system itself (which is actually very easy) and you wont need any converters and calculators anymore. There are only 2 pairs of letters that resemble each other, a bit of practice and you won't be able to make a mistake. I am saying this as someone who learned Hebrew as a second language, and it became pretty much like the first. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria[/QUOTE]
