# Deciphering Weird Symbols on Arab Coin...

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**Created:** [July 15, 2015, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deciphering-weird-symbols-on-arab-coin/725226 "2015-07-15T08:35:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deciphering-weird-symbols-on-arab-coin/725226/1 "2015-07-15T08:35:14Z")

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True story. When my father died, about 5 years ago, my family came in and helped me sort out my house. It was a mess, because basically my father and I rarely threw away anything. Anyways, my cousin and I got to this old book of foreign coins. I really liked it, because the graphics in it were big, and spectacular, I think at least. But we finally decided on throwing it away. (I still have another book on foreign coins. But it is less complete–and the graphics are much too small, I think. I digress.)

Anyways, I remember this one foreign coin I used to look at in the book. It was an old coin, from an Arab or Muslim country. And I will try to describe it as best I can. It was a pentagram, in a circle, in a hexagram, in another circle. I used to look and muse over it often. But I could never for the life of me understand what it was, or what it symbolized.

I did eventually look up some of the symbols. But it doesn’t make anymore sense, what I found in any event. The pentagram could be from the occult. And the hexagram could be the seal of Solomon. King Solomon of Israel is said to have a six-pointed ring, with the “True Name of God” (whatever that may be) inscribed around it. Again, just more confusing.

Yes, I know that pointed figures can symbolize stars. But these had more lines than that, I think. They weren’t just stars, at least I think. They were many-lined figures. IOW, a pentagram and a hexagram, as I said.

So I now leave it in your capable hands, members of the board: **What could it mean?**

🙂

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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deciphering-weird-symbols-on-arab-coin/725226/2 "2015-07-15T10:05:19Z")

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Morrocan probably. They use the seal of Solomon on their flag, which sounds like what you describe.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deciphering-weird-symbols-on-arab-coin/725226/3 "2015-07-15T10:45:36Z")

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> [@AK84](#):
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> Morrocan probably. They use the seal of Solomon on their flag, which sounds like what you describe.

Google image search [brings up this](http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae231/octoid/Morocco1953100Francsrev.jpg). Moroccan sounds right on the money. So to speak.