In a message dated 3/1/2007 7:37:59 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: England didn't exist then. It consisted of small kingdoms, one of which was Mercia. King Offa of Mercia (757-796) was so impressed with Abbasid gold coins that he ordered his mint (such as it was) to produce some. Offa's engraver, copying what he took to be a design, produced the only English coin ever to proclaim "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his Prophet."
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