Welcome Willy! Nice coin!
I love the portrait - he looks tonsured. Is that the case, or is something else being shown there?
Ah, I miss going to Kalamazoo! Unfortunatly, my school has finals at this time, so I can’t escape! [ATTACH] Crusader - Antioch Tancred, Regent,...
I still need to get in touch with you about ordering that book Pellinore! My work schedule is starting to clear up, so maybe in the next week or so
Well, the symbols dont appear on my ipad nor on my computer once I posted the above, but here is a screen shot from the MUFI “manual” [ATTACH]...
In my adventures with finding a good font for medieval texts (MUFI to the rescue, with directions to unicode if anyone is interested...) I...
Very neat @Topcat7! I like the cross on that. I’ve been lusting after a Roger of Salerno coin from Antioch lately. Not sure if I’ll pull the...
http://www.scottishhistory.com/articles/independence/braveheart.html It’s now a little old, but i would check out Michael Prestwich’s book on...
I agree with a few above - Norman invasion.
I think my problem with this list is I would just include all of them... ;)
I would add Æthelred II to anglo-saxons. He begins paying Danegeld to the vikings, and it is his actions that lead to a norman connection to...
Thanks! Amd thanks to the additional contributors! Hopefully it will continue to grow when I have time to pick up some more books...
Lovely Eleanor!
Fascinating! Here is the image from PAS: [ATTACH] Am I the only one seeing a copy of this on the reverse? [ATTACH]
Have you just been snatching up a bunch of Byzantines for the fun of it Quant, or did someone find a hoard and bring it to the you?
Awesome find! Thanks Aidan!
Awesome news - thanks for keeping us informed TIF!
Congrats!
If that is the case, what would ‘SCLAS’ mean? As it is, the latin legend would stand for REX W[illelmus] S[e]CO[nd]US, or ‘King William the...
I love that portrait - count me in. Thanks Brian!
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