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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rangnath, post: 271446, member: 9429&quot;]I wish I could humor you.&nbsp; The jokes I know don&#039;t seem quite relevant here.&nbsp; </p><p>The &quot;snakes&quot; and dots are letters in Arabic.&nbsp; Under neath the most serpentine of shapes are the numbers 1 (which looks like our one), 3, which looks like a jagged &quot;r&quot; and 0, which looks like a dot.&nbsp; My guess is that a fourth number is missing from the coin on the right because when the flan was hit, it was hit off centered.&nbsp; The full date would be something like 1301, let&#039;s say, in the Arabic luner system or about 1894 in our AD system.&nbsp; The halo is probably a symbol for either the king who minted the coin, or the place where the coin was minted.&nbsp; </p><p>The coin isn&#039;t really old at all, for all of its appearance.&nbsp; It&#039;s a 19th century coin, but it is hand made, hammered by a man, not a machine.&nbsp; It is from Bukhara in central Asia, a city once one of the most sophisticated in the world.&nbsp; In the 15th century, for hygiene or for education, you would have chosen Bukhara over London. In the late 19th century, the Khanate of Bukhara was absorbed within the Empire of Russia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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