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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikjo0, post: 111600, member: 3565&quot;]OK,thanks everyone.I found a really good site with this coin and a history of John The Blind.Seems he died on&nbsp; the side of France at the battle of Crecy:</p><p><br /></p><p>AR prager groschen, 27mm. Obv inner legend: +IOHANNES<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />RIMV_, outer legend: DEI GRATIA BOHIMIE, central crown. Rev *+* GROSSI PRAGENSES, central lion.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the interesting sidelights of the battle was the fact that king John of Bohemia joined the battle on the French side. The interest is that he was blind. He tied his horse to those of his knights and they went into battle together. John and most of his group were slaughtered, a not unsurprising result when led by a blind king and all tied together. These photos are of a memorial marker to John off the battlefield, with the inscription that he &#039;died for France.&#039; The sign on his shield was three white plumes, and Edward the Black Prince adopted this as an element on his own coat of arms after the battle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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