Hungarian m44 butt marking

[desporterizer]

Picked up a beat up Hungarian m44 at Pickering today. I think I bought it from Denis Wright's widow. Anyway I found this marked on the butt & I swear I have seen this before but can't remember on what. Anybody remember what country marked 'em like this?

 

[SA85M1]

Lend lease to an arab country,..possibly Egypt or Syria..I have an M38 so marked

 

[Nyles]

I used to have an ex-Egyptian SKS with 11 in noticeably Arabic numerals painted on butt in the same style. That said, that looks to me like IVC, it may be worth looking into whether there are any Arabic letters / numerals which match.

 

[desporterizer]

Yeah, thats what I thought. Looking some charts I found on the web, it looks like 143 with some of the 3 missing.