🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Help with metal cup

[jtw1313]

Can anyone help with this cup or the markings?

 

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[Retired Sarge]

The markings are Arabic, and looks like it says 235 25.

 

[Rmeav8r]

Arabs and a number of other middle eastern people use the RTL (right to left) style so maybe 532 52 on the etchings. I learned the markings for 18K (١٨) or 21K (٢١) gold in the early 80's on a military exercise to Egypt.

 

[Red-Coat]

Arabs and a number of other middle eastern people use the RTL (right to left) style so maybe 532 52 on the etchings. I learned the markings for 18K (١٨) or 21K (٢١) gold in the early 80's on a military exercise to Egypt.

No. Arabic words are written and read as RTL (right-to-left), but numerals (including dates expressed as numerals) are written and read as LTR (left-to-right) as we would in English.

That agrees with what you learned about gold purity marking...'١٨' is '18' and '٢١' is '21' (both written and read as LTR)

 

[Rmeav8r]

No. Arabic words are written and read as RTL (right-to-left), but numerals (including dates expressed as numerals) are written and read as LTR (left-to-right) as we would in English.

That agrees with what you learned about gold purity marking...'١٨' is '18' and '٢١' is '21' (both written and read as LTR)

Ok... I said maybe.

 

[jtw1313]

Any guess on the age to the cup or what the numbers would mean?