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2025-11-30 13:21:06 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 5EA120B9E2D94236BBDD5880EF013D472A91AEC1B61678AE331124E82EF61065
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Original Note:
Offa wasn’t Muslim and no legitimate scholar of history claims he was, the coin is a crude imitation for papal payments, made by engravers who couldn’t even read Arabic. The coin and Offa is being totally misrepresented here deliberately. Sources: https://www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/medieval-european-coinage-volume-1-the-early-middle-ages-5th-10th-centuries https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1913-1213-1 https://muslimmuseum.org.uk/king-offas-dinar
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