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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4906103, member: 110504"]Thanks for that, [USER=73358]@ro1974[/USER]. And, Rats, pictures of my denier of Edward I as duke of Aquitaine are eluding capture. But here's a dirham of Baibars, the early Mamluk sultan of Egypt who nearly succeeded in ensuring that Edward didn't get home from his crusade. It's kind of cool how both used a lion <i>passant</i> (also called a leopard in Edward's context, and a panther in Baibars') in a heraldic capacity. The 'lion' is at the bottom of the obverse. (Album, <u>Checklist of Islamic Coins</u>, 2nd ed. /1998, #883.) </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183756[/ATTACH]</p><p>Back, a little less ambiguously, to lions, here's some more music. ...Kind of evokes C. S. Lewis, <u>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe</u>. I like how it ends with the singer saying, "Cheer up, little children...."</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]l35a1YK_tW4[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4906103, member: 110504"]Thanks for that, [USER=73358]@ro1974[/USER]. And, Rats, pictures of my denier of Edward I as duke of Aquitaine are eluding capture. But here's a dirham of Baibars, the early Mamluk sultan of Egypt who nearly succeeded in ensuring that Edward didn't get home from his crusade. It's kind of cool how both used a lion [I]passant[/I] (also called a leopard in Edward's context, and a panther in Baibars') in a heraldic capacity. The 'lion' is at the bottom of the obverse. (Album, [U]Checklist of Islamic Coins[/U], 2nd ed. /1998, #883.) [ATTACH=full]1183756[/ATTACH] Back, a little less ambiguously, to lions, here's some more music. ...Kind of evokes C. S. Lewis, [U]The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe[/U]. I like how it ends with the singer saying, "Cheer up, little children...." [MEDIA=youtube]l35a1YK_tW4[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]
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