General coin identification help

I'll just start this thread to be a general identification help thread for anyone that may need it. This way there wont be hundreds of "what is this" threads. Hope it helps others as i know it definately will for me.

I dont think there's already one of these but if there is, just link it and i'll delete this one.

 

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i'll start by asking what this is? Sorry about the size as they aren't my photos.

 

A noble gesture but it won't work.

 

why wouldn't it work?

 

and does anyone know what this is?

 

People, especially new members that signed up just to find out what their coin is, are inclined to start their own thread to ask their question.

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If someone has a US coin they cannot identify they should post their question on the US Coins forum rather than here on the World & Ancient Coins forum.

 

That one's Saudi Arabian, not sure of date or denomination.

 

The Saudi Arabian one is 4 girsh (not sure I spelled that right.
The other one is from the Isle of Man. Seems to be some sort of model coin.

 

Oh. Thank you!
Do you have any idea of the dates?

 

It's 1956. And the denomination is ghirsh.

 

Oh. Cool. Thank you!
i had been wonderring what that was for months.

 

Also, from experience, most people only look at the first few posts in a thread, and only continue if it is a topic that really interests them. So if you post a really interesting coin and it appears on page 50 of a long thread filled with more mundane stuff, chances are very few people will see it.

 

The symbolism and style are all Isle of Man, but no coin of this sort was made in 1901. I suspect a modern "fantasy" coin from Pobjoy or Westminster mint.

 

Too late, there already are.

 

Those threads just get too long. The "Newest foreign acquisition" (with "foreign" misspelled in the headline for all eternity) thread is 210 pages long. I haven't looked at that in months, so whatever is posted in there is totally overlooked by me and probably many other people.

 

True, and a lot of them are me.

 

Yeah, i was always scared to comment on there because of the emails i'd be getting.

 

True

 

Oh, thank you!
That must be why i couldn't ever find it in google searches.