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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 4957132, member: 56653&quot;]By this time Jacques was a soldier of fortune who, as an illegitimate child, conquered Cyprus from his half-sister Charlotte de Lusignan and her husband Louis de Savoia. Historian George Boustronios considers that these coins were the first minted under Jacques authority during his conquest of Cyprus, when he had no means to pay for his campaign and expenses, so his army (made vastly from Egyptian soldiers of Mamluk sultan Sayf ad-Din Inal) had to scrap for copper fittings on private houses and baths to gather the metal which was then used to strike these coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Pretty much rock bottom.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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