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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;THCoins, post: 2219191, member: 57364&quot;]St George already was an important saint and martyr in the eastern orthodox church before the 11th century.</p><p>I think his prominence on 12th century Byzantine coinage has to do with his fame as a saint-warrior in the war against the Seljuk Turks. Specifically, the legend goes that the battle of Antioch in 1098 was won because of the arrival of a reinforcement army personally led by St George. (Who had been dead already for 6 centuries then)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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