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<p>[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3693656, member: 96864"]Excellent post and interesting coins, I have a small handful of Umayyad Dirhams but am still working on my Greek and am not comfortable even thinking about trying to figure out what they are yet! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think your goal of collecting all Spanish coins until 1500 is awesome as the land is saturated with lots of rich history, it will certainly keep you occupied for many years and ought to be a rewarding quest. </p><p><br /></p><p>In lieu of posting some unidentified silver coins or punic iberians, here are some items that are a bit more up my alley:</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the village of Villanueva de San Juan today, a sleepy town in picturesque southern Spain:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]989739[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>800 years ago, "Spain" as we now know it was still occupied by Moorish invaders, but the tide was turning and the armies of Christ were slowly taking back lands that had been under foreign domination since the 8th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1250s, the Christian military Order of Calatrava campaigned against the Moors who had occupied the vicinity of Villanueva de San Juan and destroyed the Islamic military enclave there, after which the region joined the Order of Calatrava in what became part of the front line between the Christians to the north and entrenched invaders to the south.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few small pieces of what at least one side considered to be a Holy Crusade are shown below; hand-carved sandstone catapult balls found barely peeking from the dirt in the vicinity of Villanueva de San Juan, the quiet town in Andalusia whose soil was once soaked in blood:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]989744[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The smallest one is 3.14lb</p><p>[ATTACH=full]989745[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The largest is 10.22lb</p><p>[ATTACH=full]989746[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Such projectiles would likely have been launched from torsion catapults something like this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]989747[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Or from traction trebuchets like illustrated here:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]989748[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Since I was a wide-eyed youngster I had always wanted a genuine medieval carved stone catapult ball, but they aren't exactly something you can find at the local flea market! Now I have 5 and may try to get more through my contacts, though the shipping costs are deadly I tell ya!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie53" alt=":hungover:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>...But not as deadly as these flying balls! Assuming a velocity of 100mph and a weight of 10lb, the projectile would have 4536 Joules of kinetic energy, which is about the same as getting blasted with six simultaneous 12 gram rounds from a .357 magnum at point-blank range. Needless to say, the best armor in the world won't allow the unlucky target to get up and walk that one off.</p><p><br /></p><p>And not really related but obligatory nonetheless <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]989753[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3693656, member: 96864"]Excellent post and interesting coins, I have a small handful of Umayyad Dirhams but am still working on my Greek and am not comfortable even thinking about trying to figure out what they are yet! :D I think your goal of collecting all Spanish coins until 1500 is awesome as the land is saturated with lots of rich history, it will certainly keep you occupied for many years and ought to be a rewarding quest. In lieu of posting some unidentified silver coins or punic iberians, here are some items that are a bit more up my alley: This is the village of Villanueva de San Juan today, a sleepy town in picturesque southern Spain: [ATTACH=full]989739[/ATTACH] 800 years ago, "Spain" as we now know it was still occupied by Moorish invaders, but the tide was turning and the armies of Christ were slowly taking back lands that had been under foreign domination since the 8th century. In the 1250s, the Christian military Order of Calatrava campaigned against the Moors who had occupied the vicinity of Villanueva de San Juan and destroyed the Islamic military enclave there, after which the region joined the Order of Calatrava in what became part of the front line between the Christians to the north and entrenched invaders to the south. A few small pieces of what at least one side considered to be a Holy Crusade are shown below; hand-carved sandstone catapult balls found barely peeking from the dirt in the vicinity of Villanueva de San Juan, the quiet town in Andalusia whose soil was once soaked in blood: [ATTACH=full]989744[/ATTACH] The smallest one is 3.14lb [ATTACH=full]989745[/ATTACH] The largest is 10.22lb [ATTACH=full]989746[/ATTACH] Such projectiles would likely have been launched from torsion catapults something like this: [ATTACH=full]989747[/ATTACH] Or from traction trebuchets like illustrated here: [ATTACH=full]989748[/ATTACH] Since I was a wide-eyed youngster I had always wanted a genuine medieval carved stone catapult ball, but they aren't exactly something you can find at the local flea market! Now I have 5 and may try to get more through my contacts, though the shipping costs are deadly I tell ya!:hungover: ...But not as deadly as these flying balls! Assuming a velocity of 100mph and a weight of 10lb, the projectile would have 4536 Joules of kinetic energy, which is about the same as getting blasted with six simultaneous 12 gram rounds from a .357 magnum at point-blank range. Needless to say, the best armor in the world won't allow the unlucky target to get up and walk that one off. And not really related but obligatory nonetheless :D: [ATTACH=full]989753[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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