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<p>[QUOTE="TheRed, post: 2924295, member: 87080"]I'm right there with you [USER=6043]@alde[/USER] especially when it is medieval history. Dan Jones also has a really good book on the War of Roses that is worth the read. You got a couple really nice pennies, I particularly like the Cnut. I've been wanting to start collecting his coins, but haven't had the budget lately. </p><p><br /></p><p>I love the Ivan [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER] I've been wanting to get a coin or two of his after reading a really great biography about him. One crazy man, yet in many ways he helped mold Russia into what it is, a single nation. One of the more sensational thins he did was to create the Oprichniki, a secret police of sorts that wore black and rode on black horses with a severed dog's head and a broom as their emblems. Their purpose was to rid the county of the Tsars enemies, both real and imagined. Around large parts of Russia they brought terror and death, if the stories about them are to be believed. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]708712[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TheRed, post: 2924295, member: 87080"]I'm right there with you [USER=6043]@alde[/USER] especially when it is medieval history. Dan Jones also has a really good book on the War of Roses that is worth the read. You got a couple really nice pennies, I particularly like the Cnut. I've been wanting to start collecting his coins, but haven't had the budget lately. I love the Ivan [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER] I've been wanting to get a coin or two of his after reading a really great biography about him. One crazy man, yet in many ways he helped mold Russia into what it is, a single nation. One of the more sensational thins he did was to create the Oprichniki, a secret police of sorts that wore black and rode on black horses with a severed dog's head and a broom as their emblems. Their purpose was to rid the county of the Tsars enemies, both real and imagined. Around large parts of Russia they brought terror and death, if the stories about them are to be believed. [ATTACH=full]708712[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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