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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5393305, member: 110504&quot;]Good question.&nbsp; The only contemporaneous gold issues in the neighborhood that come to mind are Fatimid.&nbsp; That <i>might</i> have been one influence, along the lines of similar modules in silver, from Ayyubid dirhams to Armenian trams to Venetian grossi, a mere couple of centuries later.&nbsp; Surely someone here knows more about those than we do....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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