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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aidan Work, post: 143237, member: 1824&quot;]How many of you are aware that the Indian Princely States used a wide range of dating systems on their coins? Do you know how to convert them into the dates of the Christian calendar? I am sure that you British Commonwealth collectors do know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Off hand,I can think of 2 such calendar systems - the AH calendar,which you can convert using a converter like this one here; <a href="http://www.sizes.com/time/cal_islam.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sizes.com/time/cal_islam.htm" rel="nofollow">www.sizes.com/time/cal_islam.htm</a> ,or by the cheat&#039;s way of looking at the AH&nbsp; conversion</p><p>chart in the back of the Krause catalogues.</p><p><br /></p><p>The VS (Vikrama Samvat) dating system is another calendar that is commonly found on Indian Princely States&#039;</p><p>coins.To convert it,all you need to do is add 57 to the VS date to get the AD date.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you know of the other dating systems used,please tell us about them,plus how you convert them?</p><p><br /></p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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