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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 952434, member: 39"]That coin is interesting in another sense too. Remember how I wrote, in a reply to one of your "Trivia" posts, that I find coins on coins interesting? Well, here is another one: That round thing with the big A is, at least from what I have read, based on a coin issued by King Afonso Henriques who won in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ourique" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ourique" rel="nofollow">battle of Ourique</a> that the coin also commemorates, with the Christian king's sword "cutting" (defeating) the Islamic crescent representing the Moors.</p><p><br /></p><p>The castles and the shields can be found on pretty much every Portuguese coin. In many cases they are arranged as on the country's flag and CoA, but sometimes - as on all of today's circulation coins - in a circle (<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/cash/national/portugal_en.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/cash/national/portugal_en.htm" rel="nofollow">see here</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>PS - I tried sending you a PM regarding "Poland" <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> but that did not work ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 952434, member: 39"]That coin is interesting in another sense too. Remember how I wrote, in a reply to one of your "Trivia" posts, that I find coins on coins interesting? Well, here is another one: That round thing with the big A is, at least from what I have read, based on a coin issued by King Afonso Henriques who won in the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ourique]battle of Ourique[/url] that the coin also commemorates, with the Christian king's sword "cutting" (defeating) the Islamic crescent representing the Moors. The castles and the shields can be found on pretty much every Portuguese coin. In many cases they are arranged as on the country's flag and CoA, but sometimes - as on all of today's circulation coins - in a circle ([url=http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/cash/national/portugal_en.htm]see here[/url]). PS - I tried sending you a PM regarding "Poland" ;) but that did not work ... Christian[/QUOTE]
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