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I seem to be over a meager limit for posting pictures. How do you all get away with it? Anyway...

 

You can find these coins from HARUN AL RASHID from Joel Anderson (http://www.joelscoins.com/iraq.htm) and VCoins sellers and so on. (Just search for HARUN.)

 

These coins say on one side:

THERE IS NO GOD BUT GOD.

"Allah illilah allah."

 

And on the other side:

MOHAMMED IS THE PROPHET OF GOD.

"Mohammed rasul allah."

 

(I think I have that right. I had one of these coins and a programmer from Syria helped me with the Kufic and then I ran the drill again with Robert Hoge of the ANA. I just doublechecked on VCoins, but disagree with the attribution cited in CanMoose's sale.)

 

Typical price is 20 dollars.

 

Harun al-Rashid was the caliph of Baghdad for whom the 1001 Nights Fantastic were told by Shaharazad. His librarian was Abu Ja'far Muhammad

ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi -- in whose name, al-Khwarizmi, we still have the ALGORITHM. That is a lot of history for a double sawbuck.

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Here are a few DM coins from Germany that have something to do with religious people or churches. I have those pieces but these are not my pictures.

 

Cologne Cathedral

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Larger Image: https://shop.europe-coins.de/images/20d427801.jpg

 

Teutonic Order

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Larger Image: http://img.hood.de/full/830/8301340.JPG

Larger Image: https://shop.europe-coins.de/images/20d508901.jpg

 

Lady's Church Dresden

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Larger Image: https://shop.europe-coins.de/images/20d516951.jpg

Larger Image: http://www.eurocollections.com/images/image.php?image=1721

 

Hildegard von Bingen

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Larger Image: https://shop.europe-coins.de/images/20d524981.jpg

 

Charlemagne and Aachen Cathedral

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Larger Image: https://shop.europe-coins.de/images/20d531001.jpg

 

Christian

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And a bunch of Vatican medals featuring various popes which I bought while I was there:

 

That pope on the bottom right of yur set, doesn't he look like Thomas Jefferson?

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If you know of a place where to get this at a fair price, please let me know. :ninja:

Wow! A completely neo-Classical cathedral. That's pretty cool. I think they were done building most of the large churches by the time that style became prevalent.

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More fantastic coins. I don't see how someone could visit the threads on CP and not start to collect some type of coins.

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