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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SteveF, post: 1332332, member: 30593&quot;]Hello - a friend gave me a large pile of foreign coins for christmas and now I have to figure them all out.&nbsp; I can read enough chinese &amp; japanese to figure those dates out and can read the arabic numbers so those aren&#039;t a problem either.&nbsp; Have a handful of Israeli coins and I cant figure those out.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone have a good site for determining these dates?&nbsp; tried looking at a few but didnt find anything I liked.&nbsp; It does look like they often leave the first (5000) digit off and then the rest add up but I could have read that wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the first coin I am looking at - I think it is an early 80&#039;s 1/2 shekel that was replaced in 1985 - perhaps with somebody who can read these telling me which one is the date and a recommendation of a good site or three I can add these coins to the list of ones I can read dates on</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks[ATTACH]152579.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]152578.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>edit - Don&#039;s world coins has an explanation that seems like the kind I understand - but guess I need help with the characters as I don&#039;t quite see the ones listed on the coin - dont know when a character starts &amp; ends it seems[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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