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