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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Wal888, post: 3300327, member: 96740&quot;]I never said that the commemorative coins have any symbol like mine has. And the symbol on the obverse isn&#039;t number 29, but the letter K followed by the letter Z in arabic alphabet.</p><p>First letter: <i><b><i>Ḏāl</i></b></i> (ذ, also be transcribed as <i><i>dhāl</i></i>) is one of the six letters the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet" rel="nofollow">Arabic alphabet</a> added to the twenty-two inherited from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet" rel="nofollow">Phoenician alphabet</a> (the others being <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B9%AE%C4%81%CA%BE" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B9%AE%C4%81%CA%BE" rel="nofollow">ṯāʾ</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B8%AA%C4%81%CA%BE" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B8%AA%C4%81%CA%BE" rel="nofollow">ḫāʾ</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B8%8C%C4%81d" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B8%8C%C4%81d" rel="nofollow">ḍād</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%BA%92%C4%81%CA%BE" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%BA%92%C4%81%CA%BE" rel="nofollow">ẓāʾ</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%A0ayn" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%A0ayn" rel="nofollow">ġayn</a></i>). In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic" rel="nofollow">Modern Standard Arabic</a> it represents /<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_dental_fricative" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_dental_fricative" rel="nofollow">ð</a>/. In name and shape, it is a variant of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C4%81l" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C4%81l" rel="nofollow">dāl</a></i> (د). Its numerical value is 700 (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad_numerals" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad_numerals" rel="nofollow">abjad numerals</a>). The Arabic letter ذ is named ذال<i><i>ḏāl</i></i>. It is written is several ways depending in its position in the word;</p><p>Second letter: <b><font size="5">qāf </font></b>The Arabic letter ق is named قاف <i><i>qāf</i></i>. It is written in several ways depending in its position in the word <b>Glyph form:</b> ق‬ ـق‬ ـقـ‬ قـ‬</p><p>It is usually transliterated into Latin script as <i>q</i>, though some scholarly works use <i>ḳ</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure, but probably the symbol be the quantity of coins was minted for that special case. IMHO.</p><p>Walter[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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