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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 663720, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Definitely NOT &quot;Hebrew&quot;</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice call, there, Weryon!&nbsp; You nailed it.&nbsp; I forgot about the UAR, a temporary formal alliance of Egypt and Syria.&nbsp; Here is what I had as you were posting yours... beat me by minutes (and with the right answer).</p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>I am going with SYRIA by the Eagle with Two Stars.</p><p>Also, the date to the right is 1387 (AH) which is 1968 AD and in fact the date on the left in Arabic is the year 1967.</p><p><br /></p><p>The big &quot;O&quot; in the center is an Arabic 5.</p><p>5 piasters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Syria, 1967/68.&nbsp; (Lunar-Solar conversion there.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe a one dollar coin in Mint State, but otherwise, a very common item.</p><p><br /></p><p>The easiest way to tell Hebrew from Arabic if you cannot read either -- and I cannot -- is that Hebrew &quot;black letter&quot; is chunky and square, whereas Arabic is scripty and fast.</p><p><br /></p><p>This 500-prutah coin from 1949, struck by Israel has both, Hebrew on top, Arabic on the bottom -- make of that what you will...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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