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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 2959204, member: 72790&quot;]That tari is a very nicely struck coin, with the IC XC, Koine Greek for JS CHS, Jesus Christ very clear. I have read somewhere that the other side in Arabic, is in a blundered Kufic script and may not actually mean anything at all. Roger himself was a Norman more used to the Roman alphabet (if literate) but his subjects on the island still were not far removed from Byzantine administration (using Greek) and had been dealing with Arab invasions for centuries. I like to see this coinage as hedging one&#039;s bets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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