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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2753872, member: 12789&quot;]A fascinating read.&nbsp; I remember reading about them before the hoard was discovered and the coins were then as scarce as a truthful politician.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Lord M notes it is fascinating how the coinage denigrated over time, that coin would appear to have fit in with coins that were struck 700-800 years before.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, in the account I read of the seige the Ottomans catapulted bodies of people that had died of the plague to spread disease in Constantinople.&nbsp; Germ warfare/weapons of mass destruction are nothing new.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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