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					Originally Posted by ariel
					
				 
				The 1947 date etched into the blade, but it is rather funny: Arabic Islamic numerals, but the date is written using Christian calendar:-) 
			
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 This is very common and not unusual in Jordan, Syria, Algeria, Morocco...
It's what they called the progress of colonisation.