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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 3579429, member: 74712&quot;]I’m not sure I would trust much of what Dan Jones has to say.&nbsp; Did he cite a source that said the coins had John’s name?&nbsp; If I remember correctly, most of John’s “mercenaries” came from the Low Countries, and John raised a massive scutage in England of the English knights and high taxes on the various towns, and even the moneyers of England to pay for the wars.&nbsp; It would make no sense for that money to be coined in Ireland.&nbsp; And I am sure John kept Henry II’s name and image on the coins because they were stable, and widely used (Richard’s ransom was paid in those coins, which became widely imitated in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Emperor aided John in his was against Phillip Augustus).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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