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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1016801, member: 57463&quot;]Pakistan 1 rupee</p><p><a href="http://www.humsafar.info/currency_coins.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.humsafar.info/currency_coins.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.humsafar.info/currency_coins.php</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a number of ways to go about this.&nbsp; </p><p>You could get an Arabic alphabet from Wikipedia or from a Arabic language tutoring website and then look for the letters you can find to piece together as much as you can.&nbsp; </p><p>(Arabic has the same thing we do, though, where in cursive, capital R is not the same as little r and for little r the shape is different at the start or middle of a word.&nbsp; But you can work through that or ignore it.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You could guess.&nbsp; There&#039;s like only 30 Muslim/Arabic nations in the world and common things are common.&nbsp; So, if you found this, it had to come from like one of the top 10 most likely.&nbsp; Then you google for &quot;coins of Jordan&quot; and &quot;coins of Syria&quot; and so on.&nbsp; I started with them because Muslims are usually pretty serious about religion and there is a thing in the Ten Commandments against graven images because this coin has a man and a mosque and the man would be a graven image of false worship.&nbsp; So, this had to come from someplace with strong ties to the West.&nbsp; The present Queen of Jordan Rania al Yassin has a college degree in business and work experience with Apple -- you don&#039;t get that with the Saudis, right?&nbsp; Their royal women are still locked up.&nbsp; So, just to say, this coin must have come from some &quot;arabic&quot; place with strong westernism.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the Pakistanis are not Arabs.&nbsp; So, there is that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, it is a modern coin.&nbsp; So you can search the central banks of the countries to see their current coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I mean, it takes work, but I did it because it was fun for me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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