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Emergency Money: A Short History of Siege Coins

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By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ….. The issue of siege money is recorded on various occasions in antiquity and the Middle Ages, but its history effectively begins in the late fifteenth century, and the issue of obsidional money accompanies all the great sieges which are such a conspicuous feature of the military history of Europe […]

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The Right to Strike: Early Coins of the Knights Hospitaller

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By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek ….. Now called the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, the order’s name was originally The Knights Hospitaller. A Roman Catholic religious order founded in 1048 by Italian merchants from the Amalfi coast, the group originally consisted solely of men who took […]

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