Without looking up the cert, you mean? In a way, I'm really sorry I clicked on your link. Not because there's anything wrong with the coins- they're great. No, rather I think you may have just greatly endangered my focus by showing me a PCGS Registry set I would actually really enjoy doing. I haven't done anything on the Registry in more than a decade, and that was with US coins. There were just no World coin reg set options that appealed to me. Until now. I had no idea there were mixed-country one-per-year sets. Thanks for sharing your set. And no thanks at all for putting dangerous ideas in my brain. Oh, no... am I going to have to start drinking the Kool-Aid again...?
PS- I guessed before looking up the cert. Arabic coins are a very weak area of my knowledge, but going from the style, I guessed, then went to look it up. And I was right. Scout's honor.
PPS- oh. "Showcase". So a custom set, then? *whew* Still, I might have to think about following along similar lines. Think about. Again- very cool set concept, though. Wouldn't be so tempting to me if it wasn't.
PPPS (am I getting annoying yet? LOL) - Just looked at some of the image gallery. WOW. What a terrific set. No, I think I'll stick with a PCGS/NGC Box of 25 that includes Ancient & Medieval. But you sure had me daydreaming about a "Box of 417" for a little while.
Thanks for the comments. Yeah, it is a showcase. I asked for a regular version of a set of one coin per year and it got . But, I think it would be incredibly hard to define a set (in PCGS terms) of that nature because of the multitude of dates that are not western.
Yes, I suppose there are too many intangibles for them to make it work on the Registry. The Hejira dates in your set, like the coin in the OP, made me wonder about that right away. Still, without AH dates or regnal systems like Japanese "year-x" dates (which does unfairly exclude an awful lot of the world's coinage), you'd think they could base the Registry scoring on the completion percentage alone, ignoring grade and everything else. It would be simplistic, but it would work. For example, if you hypothetically have 386 of the necessary 417 coins, your set is 92.5% complete and would outrank mine, if I only have 225 of the 417 (53.9% completion). That would be a quantity-over-quality consideration, though. I can see why they would choose not to go there.
Tunisia during the rule of sultan Abdul Mejid (1839-1861). Tell me the weight and I'll tell you face value.
I don't know the weight, but it should weigh 6.5 grams. Can you guess the grade? That may be the toughest part.
