I'm helping a Lady I know find out what some coins are worth...her mom just died and they found a hand full of old coins...I have found out where most are from but these I can't find... Thanks Speedy
Speedy, Looks like Haile Selassie which would make it Ethiopia.i believe that lion was also his symbol. The top one I can't help you with tho....
It's very difficult to find info on Ethiopian coins..and I'm a champion googler..but look at this...closest I can find..it's 1944,probably close to your coin.
You might like this site...this is where I found a photo after you told me what country to look in... Speedy
I hand you my google crown Speedy,good job! Now figure out if it's the 1,5 or 10 cent denomination,I didn't look too closely but it looks at first glance like the only difference is size maybe?The inscriptions appear to be identical.
This coin is smaller than a dime...the other coin is larger like a Quarter... The "words" are a few "letters" different...I can't tell weather 1cent or 5 cent... Speedy
The Selassie piece is a 10 santeems (cents) coin. The first character(s) on the left below the lion correspond to the denomination. The other coin is a brass Egyptian 10 milliemes dated 1973.
The Egyptian coin dated 1973 is also dated AH1393,which is the date in the Islamic lunar calendar.An Islamic lunar year is 11 days shorter.There is an Islamic solar calendar,but this is used in Iran & Afghanistan. As to the Ethiopian coin,it is dated EE1936 (1944).The Ethiopian calendar is around 7 or 8 years behind ours.The Ethiopian Era calendar is still in use,especially by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.The coins of Emperor Haile Selassie are popular with the Rastafarians,as the Emperor was known as Ras Tafari Makonnen prior to his coronation in 1930. Aidan.
The second coin is a 1 cent coin, dated EE1936 (1944 AD) and was minted anytime from that year until the late 1960s or early 1970s.
Carlinhos Thanks for the info....after looking at it I couldn't decided if it was a 1 cent or not but I had marked it as such...glad I was right...I was going to go back and mark it off the flip! Speedy
No problem. When I get some time, I'll post pics of each denomination so you can see which is which. The denomination is written underneath the lion on the reverse as one, five, ten, twenty-five and 50 centimes. The worn example posted by Mikjo0 is a five cent coin.
