Identify these coins!

[theweaselking]

I found some more stuff my Dear Former Homeowner left behind. In it were three coins - the first was a Swiss Franc, the second two, I can't identify. The writing on them looks Arabic, but I can't read 'em. Enough of the characters (and the plants around the rims of the coins) are the same that I bet they're from the same country.

So I took pictures!





Same two coins, front and back images. How about it, Interweb? What country are those from, and how many cents are they roughly worth?

Edit: They're both Iranian! The bigger is 10 Rials, from 1940. The smaller is 5 Rials, from 1933. They're worth approximately 0.15% of one Canadian cent.

Neat!

Comments

[kohaku1977.livejournal.com]

They are both from Iran!

Here is the one with the lion. (http://www.allnumis.com/coin_5-rials-1977-ms-2536_2842,1271,1289.html)

And here is the other one! (http://www.allnumis.com/coin_1-rial-1979-sh-1358_5418,1271,1272.html)

Not sure about how much they are worth though. The site I linked to lists prices, but I can't make out a date for sure.

That was fun!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

What part do you need a better picture of to read a date?

[kohaku1977.livejournal.com]

Oh hurray, you found out about the dates already! Neat!