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

[jerril]

If they're pocket change, it's more awesome. Because then you can electroplate them with copper or brass or gold or whatever shiny yellow metal you can electroplate with, and call them RPG props.

I am a serious nerd obviously.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

I had a wire put through mine and now I wear it as an earring.