https://www.istockphoto.com/illustrations/happy-new-year-in-different-languages
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ROMAN/Valerian CE 253-260
AR Antoninianus; 21 mm, 3.78 g, Antioch mint CE 254-255
RIC 220
RCV 9966
RSC 179
O: rad, cuir, draped bust r, IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG
R: Valerian or Sol radiate in long robes adv r, r hand raised holding orb in l. RESTITVT GENER HVMANI.
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ISLAMIC; Bahri Mamluk, AL-MANṢŪR 'ALĀ AL-DĪN 'ALI 778–783 AH. = 1377–1381 CE
Balog 505. Border
on both sides: circular line in circle of dots.
Field divided by two horizontal lines of dots.
ضرب طر /
لملك المنصور /
ابلس
Lion passant to left; tail, with knot in the middle, curled
back.
L 929 (17, 2.27) Plate XIX,
505a. ANS (18, 2.35); (17, 2.16). Flagellation (18) Plate XIX, 505 b.
München, two specimens. Jungfleisch (22, 4.36).
Towns underlined in blue are the mints for the three Mamluk Fals shown here. Map is the Mamluk lands c. 1330 CE, a generation or longer before the period covered by these coins.
ISLAMIC; Bahri Mamluk, AL-ASHRAF NĀṢIR AL-DĪN SHA'BĀN II 764–778 AH. = 1363–1377 CE
AE Fals; 18 x 14 mm, 1.89 g, Hamah mint nd
Heraldic (lion to left)
Balog 464. As
above, but lion on the reverse to left.
BMC 606,c
(18) Plate XVII, 464a; 606,
f (17). BM, L. A. Lawrence 1935 5–1–4; 5–1–5. L 1099 (2.08). ANS (15) Plate XVII, 464b.
الملك
الاشرف
Upper segment: بحماة
Lower segment: ضرب
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British Colonial Ireland & America; Wood’s Half Penny 1722
AE Half Penny; 27 mm; 6h, 8.84 g
KM 116
Spink 6600
O: laur bust
of George I r, GEORGIUS DE GRATIA REX
R: Hibernia
with Harp std l, harp to right, HIBERNIA 1722
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ISLAMIC; Bahri Mamluk; as-Salih Salih ad-Din Salih AH 752-755/CE 1351-1354
AE Fals; 19 mm, 2.89 g, Halab mint; AH 755/ CE 1354
Description of the piece
below from ANS Digital
Library: Coinage of the Mamlūk Sultans of Egypt and Syria (numismatics.org)
Balog Mamluk 338
Copper
ALEPPO, 755 H.
338. Border: circular line.
Field
divided by two horizontal lines into three segments.
Upper
segment: سنة خمس
Central
segment: الملك الصالح
Lower
segment: وخمسين بحلب
Border:
circle of scrolls (or on some specimens a circular cable?) between two circular
lines.
In
center: bird walking to right, head turned straight back. Above the bird's
back, swan-like body, so far unidentified.
On top
of the name, الصالح, is an ornament; on some specimens it is: الصالح ω (P
M–5823), on others: الصالح (L 890, b and L 940).
L 890,b (18) Plate XIII, 338a; 940 (18, 2.80). P M–5823 (20) Plate XIII, 338. BMC 542 (20); 543 (21); 543,a. BM F–5–70–7–15980. Lagumina p. 96 no. 6. Blau no. 300 a, b. Wien 774. ANS, three specimens: (21, 2.94); (19, 2.56); (19, 2.14). Thorburn. Balog, three specimens: (20, 2.99); (20); (20).
Only a
few specimens were known to Lavoix, who attributed them to al-Ṣāliḥ Ḥājji, but
read the mint-name Aleppo correctly: Lane-Poole ascribed the coin to al-Ṣāliḥ
Isma'īl and read the upper and lower segments as: قسيم محمد and ضر بحلب.
We
have now several fulūs of this issue, on which the mint,
Aleppo, and the date, 755 H., are clear. There can be no doubt about the
attribution to al-Ṣāliḥ Ṣāliḥ.
The
heraldic bird of the reverse has been described as a duck, to which —
especially on poorly preserved specimens — it has a certain resemblance. Mayer,
in his Saracenic Heraldry (p. 7 and notes p. 3, 10 and 26),
points out, however, that there is no evidence that the duck was ever used as
heraldic emblem on a Mamlūk blazon.
On
closer examination of the coins, the bird does not resemble a duck but rather
any walking bird with short legs, and could be an eagle, a raven or even a
sparrow. Until we have further clearer evidence, we should like to suggest the
eagle.
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ISRAEL; First Roman War CE 66-73
AE Prutah; 14mm, 2.33 g, Year 2= CE 67/68
Hendin (5th
ed) 1360
O: amphora
with broad rim and two handles שנת שתים
R: vine leaf with
tendril,ציון חרות
Paleo-Hebrew
script reads “Year Two” on obs and “the Freedom of Zion(Jerusalem)” on the reverse,
though is written here in modern Hebrew.
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