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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2874503, member: 84744&quot;]Wow, some awesome stuff in this thread like VK&#039;s pentanummium, Orfew&#039;s Cato Uticensis, and Zumbly&#039;s lavender tet.&nbsp; To think I might not have seen them otherwise, and all the other stuff too!&nbsp; (Actually, I think I&#039;ve seen Orfew&#039;s but very happy to see it again!)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Too right!!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]687811[/ATTACH]</p><p>Here are some others that don&#039;t get out enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pallavas of Kanchipuram: Mahendravarman I (600-630). The Pallavas became a major power during his reign, and dominated the Telugu and northern parts of the Tamil region for about 600 years until the end of the 9th century.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]687812[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Mughal: Sher Shah Suri (1538-1545), rupee, AH 946.&nbsp; I believe this is the second year of the rupee, though I haven&#039;t yet seen an AH 945 myself.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]687813[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Abbasid Revolution (744-751), AR dirham, AH129 (746-747), struck by partisans of &#039;Abd Allah b. Mu&#039;awiya, an Aliid. Album 206.1.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]687814[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Zengid: Badr al-Din Lu&#039;lu (1233-1259), AE dirham, struck in Mosul 1233-34 (AH 631). The first former slave to rise to the level of Sultan, Lu&#039;Lu&#039; helped Hulagu in his campaigns in Syria, leading the latter to spare Mosul in the Mongol invasion, which included the catastrophic sack of Baghdad in 1258.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]687815[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Golden Horde: Anonymous (1270-1310) 1/5th dirham (0.25g). Golden Horde tamgha/six-petaled flower. Album B2020 (RR).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]687817[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Odo, elected king of the Franks (888-898), and the first king of the Robertian dynasty. (The Capets were a cadet branch of this family.) He was nearly the only Carolingian to have marked success against the Vikings, successfully defending Paris from them in 885-86.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]687816[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, better stop now... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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