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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3120371, member: 10461&quot;]Alas, I did not win that Elizabethan coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>But since I lost that, it allowed me to get <i>this</i> one.</p><p><br /></p><p>How about a <i>gold</i> <b>Dirt</b>Cam from the Crusader era?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Sicily (Norman Kings): gold tari of Guglielmo I (&quot;William the Bad&quot;), ca. 1154-1166 AD</font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]793875[/ATTACH] </font></font></b></p><p><br /></p><p>I was light in the medieval gold department and needed to address that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Though I could have pursued rounder examples with better strikes and flans, this one &quot;spoke&quot; to me, and I had to have it.&nbsp; And I&#039;m going to leave most if not all of the dirt on it when I send it off to PCGS.&nbsp; (Might give it a very light brushing with a soft brush, at most.)</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an interesting cross-cultural coin with both Islamic (Kufic) inscriptions and Christian iconography.&nbsp; The collision of these cultures during the Crusades produced some interesting hybrids like this, with Christian rulers imitating Islamic coinage.&nbsp; (In this era, the Muslims were often the more technologically advanced culture.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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