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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 3225940, member: 51347&quot;]What a GREAT coin, with a fantastic portraiture of a Cataphract!&nbsp; Way cool!</p><p><br /></p><p>LOL, I am always fascinated with the Cataphract cavalries - heavy armor plowing through armies!&nbsp; Cool concept.&nbsp; But, I always wondered why it took armies so long to figure out how to stop them using piked sarissa in a phalanx formation...</p><p><br /></p><p>Medieval:&nbsp; don&#039;t have much at all.&nbsp; That is why I was so shocked to be tagged in this thread, LOL!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few contemporaries of your fantastic coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]840992[/ATTACH] </p><p>Egypt Mamluk Qalaun 1279-1290 CE AR Dirham Dianeshq</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]840993[/ATTACH]</p><p>AYYUBID Caliphate - <b>Saladin</b> al-Nasir Salah al Din Yusuf AH564-589&nbsp; 1169-1193 CE AR Dirham RARE mint <b>(This guy took Jerusalem back from the Europeans).</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]840994[/ATTACH]</p><p>Bhuvanaika Bahu CE 1273-1284 Æ Massa 3.9g 19mm King throne solar symbol altar flame lotus - King reclining sankh-conch Nagari-Sri Bhuvanaika Bahu MNI 851-52</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]840995[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>England Edward I</b> 1272-1307 AR Penny&nbsp; 19mm 1.3g Class 10c 1302-1310 Canterbury&nbsp; facing&nbsp; star - Voided long cross&nbsp; 3 pellets quarters North 1040 ex [USER=21445]@Mat[/USER] (yeah, that Braveheart King guy)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]840996[/ATTACH]</p><p>FRANCE PHILIPPE IV LE BEL CE 1285-1314 AR 25mm GROS TOURNOIS À L&#039;O ROND AR 25mm DUPLESSY 213 - <b>Killed off Knights Templar Friday 13 October 1307</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]840998[/ATTACH]</p><p>Mongols-Ghazna mnt Khwarezm <b>Genghis Khan</b> 1206-1227 CE AE Jital Islamic RARE - only The Just Kahn in title Album 1969 Tye 329[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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