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                <text>This is a pile of clippings taken from silver coins in 16th-17th century England. The original coins were of Elizabeth I, James I , and Charles I and were thus over 90% fine metal. Clippings of this sort were made to be melted back down, often into counterfeit coins. </text>
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                <text>The Fitzwilliam Museum</text>
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                <text>This Islamic coin was minted just as the Samanids conquered  al-Muhammadiya (in modern Iran). The central inscription names the propher Muhammad as well as the Samanid rule  Nuḥ bin Nasr. The inner circular margin lists the date and location of the coin's minting, and the outer has verses 4-5:30 of the Qur'an.</text>
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                <text>The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/457627?sortBy=Relevance&amp;amp;ft=coin&amp;amp;offset=0&amp;amp;rpp=20&amp;amp;pos=1</text>
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                <text>Rogers Fund, 1939</text>
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                <text>Dies like this one were used to make the designs seen on Medieval coins. A metal blank would be placed between the upper and lower dies, then the upper one would be struck with a hammer. This would leave a design imprinted in the metal disc, creating a coin.</text>
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                <text>This coin circulated under the Abbasid reign and features a Kufic inscription. Note the extremely elongated letters.</text>
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                <text>This struck bronze follis has been clipped so much that much of the inscription is gone. The minting location and ruler of the time are uncertain– the information may have originally been in the margins. We can tell that the figure depicted is Christ due to his halo inscribed with a cross.</text>
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                <text>Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation</text>
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