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A Quick Guide to figuring out "which way is up" for Chinese and Arabic coins |
As a general rule: when Arabic is right way up, it "catches a lot of water" - imagine water falling down from the top of the coin; all the little bowl-shaped letters catch it, forming "pools". Upside-down Arabic does not do this anywhere near as much.
For Chinese, it is the opposite: the letters are like little houses, allowing "falling water" to run away forming very few pools.
The coins, for reference, are a copper cash of Song Dynasty emperor Ren Zong (AD 1039-1054) and a silver rupee of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (AD 1633).
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