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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 5423657, member: 72790&quot;]Interesting question. I had the experience once of having a coin from the Middle East. it was written in Kufic script, the writing of early Islam. I wanted to know what it said. As it turns out I had a student in my class who had emigrated from a Middle Eastern country whose father was an imam. While the student could not read it his father gave me a complete description of the coin. It dated to about 100 AH or early Eighth century AD. I also had a large, thin Asian coin that I showed to an Asian&nbsp; friend. Fortunately I showed it to the guy, not his mother or wife, and that was indeed fortunate as it was a token from a, well, gentleman&#039;s club on the West Coast of the US circa 1900 with an explicit advertisement as part of the legend.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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