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Originally Posted by peterweedon
I wonder if the numerals (if that is what they are) indicate a date?
The English translation of "Mai" is May.
No other ideas from me.
Peter
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I confess i curious and wishing to decipher those marks, but now i wouldn't know how to figure that out
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They certainly are letters and numerals; but Moroccans would preferably write in Arabic ... unless this were very recent stuff and the writing were directed to tourists.
Also the dates would be counting as from the Hejira calendar, so any guess like 10 May 2010 wouldn't be so probable ... unless again a tourist attitude.
There are cases where these Latin/Roman letterings do not make any sense, being only a purpose of giving a certain European flavour to things, like the Turks (Ottoman) used to engrave in their weapons ... i think not only to offer them to tourists.
Let's see whether someone more into these items will tell us what these marks represent.