Some imitation Islamic coins minted in early medieval Europe — updated map etc and links :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/03/some-imitation-islamic-coins.html …pic.twitter.com/xmzX5Wa964
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An 8th/9thC Anglo-Carolingian cross brooch w/ Arabic inscription, found Ballycottin, Ireland https://voxhiberionacum.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/cork-carolingian-connections/ …pic.twitter.com/otwG12ZYvw
Al-Idrisi mentions Irish towns where 'ships used to put in' & buy amber—ref to 9thC Dublin? http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/03/some-imitation-islamic-coins.html …pic.twitter.com/WhhBtl9kuv
The 11thC geographer al-'Udhri's detailed description of an early medieval Irish whale-hunt (trans. D. M. Dunlop)pic.twitter.com/LTClSfO0lQ
A 16thC copy of al-Idrisi's original 12thC Arabic map of Ireland, from Oxford's MS Pococke 375: http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/s/6uyzd6 …pic.twitter.com/XQ3tFNuWgD
Imitation Islamic dirham found Gotland, issued 9thC by Jewish Khazars who added ref to Moses http://web.archive.org/web/20070928092148/http://www.myntkabinettet.se/notiser/spillings2.htm …pic.twitter.com/kYKxYtd6Ol
Sound proof of Slave Trade between Muslims & Vikings "Libera nos Domine a furore Normannorum"
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Certainly has been argued as such & textual evidence supports, e.g. https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/550219725620670464 … :)
Offa's 8thC Anglo-Saxon gold dinar vs. a genuine dinar of the 'Abbāsid caliph Al-Mansur, struck AD 773/4 (rotated): http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/03/some-imitation-islamic-coins.html …pic.twitter.com/dabzRE2PWq
An 8thC imitation of an 'Abbāsid dinar of AD 773/4, thought to be minted in Carolingian Europe by Charlemagne: http://webapps.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?oid=199633 …pic.twitter.com/tE341qTUzS
10thC coin imitating an Islamic dirham w/ cross & bird added, poss issued by Olga of Kiev: https://www.academia.edu/20315581/Where_Did_Rus_Grand_Princess_Olga_s_Falcon_Find_Its_Cross … & http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=65320&partId=1&object=21150&sortBy=&page=66 …pic.twitter.com/Ju5lDLVDIE
Imitation Islamic dirham found Gotland, issued in the 9thC by Jewish Khazars who added a reference to Moses: http://web.archive.org/web/20070928092148/http://www.myntkabinettet.se/notiser/spillings2.htm …pic.twitter.com/i1wCUAaCcn
A late 9th-century Khazar imitation dirham with tamgha-like signs on the outer edge, probably reused as a Viking brooch; found in North Yorkshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/629137 …pic.twitter.com/CC9ECmqIzD
In S India, they forged Roman coins w head of Augustus. Dinar is of course from Denarius, like A-S Threms is from Tremissus.
لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له : right محمد رسول الله : left
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