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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 24717264, member: 99456&quot;]Depending on what you collect - &quot;aesthetics&quot; may be an acquired taste - I think I collect nice looking coins...but I definitely lean story first :</p><p><br /></p><p>The beginning of the Second Triumvirate (Mark Antony and Lepidus):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580649[/ATTACH]</p><p>Al Kamil during the 5th Crusade</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580650[/ATTACH]</p><p>Kurzuwan under siege by Genghis Khan&#039;s armies weeks before the destruction of the city:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580651[/ATTACH]</p><p>Manuel I Comnenus (reverse) and his dream of a restored Roman Empire with MP-ΘV (i.e. <b>Μ</b>ΗΤΗ<b>Ρ</b> <b>Θ</b>ΕΟ<b>Υ</b> == Meter Theou == Mother of God) Virgin Mary enthroned and facing holding nimbate head of infant Christ before her on the obverse:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580652[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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