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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5195094, member: 110504&quot;]Very cool, [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER], and thanks for your reminder of [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER]&#039;s formidable writeup (and coins).</p><p>I have one less than great dirham with the panther.&nbsp; Posted recently; never mind.&nbsp; Your half dirham is on the same level as [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER]&#039; full dirham.&nbsp; Right, that ironically, since, as you note, the panther is often only partly on the flan even on full dirhams. </p><p>...Maybe this should stay at the level of a thought experiment, but if heraldry is one link in the cultural frame of reference that was shared by medieval Islam and the medieval West, your observation about the visual pun can&#039;t help but evoke the &#039;canting arms&#039; in France and England from the later 12th c. ACE.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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