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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tibor, post: 3579744, member: 73385&quot;]On page 252 of&nbsp; Robert Levinson&#039;s book&nbsp; The Early Dated Coins of Europe&nbsp; 1234-1500&nbsp; he gives two possible theories. One is&nbsp; &quot;All Honors Belong to Austria&quot;</p><p>the other which he attributes to A.Szego who wrote in his book&nbsp; A Coinage of</p><p>Medieval Austria, &quot; All Earth is Austria&#039;s Ultimately&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; For me , the first would be more relevant. The Hapsburgs were great benefactors</p><p>of art and science. I think they ruled relatively fairly, and most of their territorial</p><p>expansion was thru marriage.&nbsp; For the second interpretation to hold water they</p><p>would have to have had a HUGE and strong navy like Britain, Spain, Portugal</p><p>or the Dutch. One can be a &quot;big fish&quot; in a wading pool ie. Europe,&nbsp; or you can be</p><p>an even &quot;bigger fish&quot; in the oceans of the world much like Britain was.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I never even gave any thought to those letters till now. What I wrote here</p><p>was off the top of my head. I welcome any and all corrections and opinions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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