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To: Texas Fossil

What would be your first guess?


6 posted on 07/17/2012 1:38:05 PM PDT by AliVeritas (God's will be done. Pray, Pray, Pray, Penance, Penance, Penance.)
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To: AliVeritas

They are Arab coins.

Might have been taken when Saladin was defeated there by Richard I. Richard commanded both the Hospitallers and the Templars as well as his own guard.

Nights Hospitallers controlled that castle from 1261-1265 (when it fell).

Last Christian holding to fall to the Muslims was Acre. (Templars were last to leave in 1291, those that did not fight to the death.)


9 posted on 07/17/2012 4:03:44 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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