An 8th/9thC Carolingian cross brooch w/ an Arabic inscription, found Ballycottin, Ireland: http://voxhiberionacum.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/cork-carolingian-connections/ …pic.twitter.com/CMLhPMWHbb
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Offa's coin imitated dinar of Abbasid caliph al-Mansur (cf image, via https://twitter.com/BeardyHowse/status/543536800938356736 …) but w/ his name added.pic.twitter.com/EY1Tbwa2cE
@caitlinrgreen A way of indicating a coin of equivalent quality and weight, and, therefore, of equivalent value?
@JAJafri Certainly possible; usual explanation=used to pay Pope, copying dinar as standard weight, but maybe use in trading more plausible?
@caitlinrgreen @JAJafri In the #Indusvalley 1900-2600 BCEseals are used are trading devices (money) also.#Sindhpic.twitter.com/XDHYB8iIye
@ambrin_hayat @caitlinrgreen Were these made from baked clay? Any news of any progress on the deciphering of the symbols/#script on these?
Another possible L8th-E9thC Anglo-Saxon imitation of a gold dinar, w/ cross added :) (Webster & Blackhouse 1991 148b)pic.twitter.com/N1boiN2DRU
This poss Anglo-Saxon dinar is based on an 'Abbasid dinar of 789-90/792-3, so poss issued by Offa's successor, Coenwulf?! But trade or alms?
@caitlinrgreen @CrombieJIM Gosh! They are so beautiful.
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