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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 4902296, member: 57463"]<font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="5">"The </font></font><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="5">Annales Cambriae</font></font></i><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="5"> also mention Arthur’s victory at Mons Badonicus (516) and record the Battle of Camlann (537), “in which Arthur and Medraut fell.” ... Gildas’s </font></font><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="5">De excidio et conquestu Britanniae</font></font></i><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="5"> (mid-6th century) implies that Mons Badonicus was fought in about 500 but does not connect it with Arthur." -- </font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="5"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/King-Arthur" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/King-Arthur" rel="nofollow">https://www.britannica.com/topic/King-Arthur</a></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>So, any coin associated with Britain before 537 would qualify, as it can be argued that such a coin might have been in Arthur's treasury. That said, though, to be "from the time of Arthur" a coin would have to have been struck in Britain, and I would say between 477 and 537.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 4902296, member: 57463"][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=5]"The [/SIZE][/FONT][I][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=5]Annales Cambriae[/SIZE][/FONT][/I][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=5] also mention Arthur’s victory at Mons Badonicus (516) and record the Battle of Camlann (537), “in which Arthur and Medraut fell.” ... Gildas’s [/SIZE][/FONT][I][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=5]De excidio et conquestu Britanniae[/SIZE][/FONT][/I][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=5] (mid-6th century) implies that Mons Badonicus was fought in about 500 but does not connect it with Arthur." -- [URL]https://www.britannica.com/topic/King-Arthur[/URL][/SIZE][/FONT] So, any coin associated with Britain before 537 would qualify, as it can be argued that such a coin might have been in Arthur's treasury. That said, though, to be "from the time of Arthur" a coin would have to have been struck in Britain, and I would say between 477 and 537.[/QUOTE]
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