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TIL that the medieval Anglo Saxon king Offa of Mercia had minted coins that had his seal on one side and simply imitated Abbasid dinars on the other, complete with an inscription in arabic: “There is no God but God”. Discovered in Rome, speculations were made it could have been a gift to the pope.

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