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Anthropology

exboyfil

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1. I wonder how long these coins were in circulation

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Jan 4, 2021, 09:33 PM

Jan 2021

Like it said lots of connections 200 years later.

Richard the Lionhearted was in the Middle East in 1191. Easily one of his men could have brought back the coin at that time since the Silk Road was running (or had been running).

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