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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 83609, member: 669&quot;]<img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/schilder/142.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> to CoinTalk Adam.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I read it correctly, your last question was not about how to read the dates, but what they mean.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Islamic calendar is a twelve-month lunar calendar with no &quot;leap month&quot; adjustments, so it&#039;s dates slide through the western calendar with its 11-day longer solar year.&nbsp; &quot;AH&quot; stands for &quot;After Hejira&quot;, referring to Mohammed&#039;s flight from Mecca in 622 AD.&nbsp; 1273AH began on September 1, 1856, and ended on August 22, 1857.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Like those of many Ottoman Turkish rulers, the coins of Abdul Mejid show both the AH date of his accession to the throne (AH1255/1839-40) and the year of his reign in which it was actually struck (19, resulting in the AH1273 issue date calculated by Aidan).</p><p><br /></p><p>With all due deference to Aidan&#039;s expertise, I think the poor condition of your coin has led him astray on the denomination.&nbsp; It appears to me that it is a 40 para (KM#670 in the Krause &amp; Mishler Standard Catalog of World Coins 19th Century).&nbsp; The 4 (resembling a W standing on end) clearly shows on your rubbing, but the small diamond-shaped zero to its right (the bottom of your picture) is not as clear.&nbsp; Krause does not list any 4 para coins in the 3rd Ed. of the 19th Century volume.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I&#039;m right, your coin is a 37mm wide copper coin (roughly the size of a U.S. silver dollar), weighing 20g or less.&nbsp; Krause reports a mintage of 111.3-million for that year, with values starting at $1.25 for a VG grade.&nbsp; From your description, I would expect to find yours in a dealer&#039;s &quot;junk coin&quot; bowl for a maximum of 10-25¢.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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