A Unique European Hunting Sword With an Indo-Persian Wootz Blade

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A Unique European Hunting Sword With an Indo-Persian Wootz Blade

24th May 2018, 05:20 PM

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Roland_M

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Originally Posted by David

Please excuse my ignorance on such things, but shouldn't this be read from right to left, making the Arabic date 1201, or roughly 1787?

Hi David,

nowadays Arabic dates are written from left to right.
See this example, 1980 = 1359.

Roland

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