Welcome to the Historical Fiction Online forums: a friendly place to discuss, review and discover historical fiction.
If this is your first visit, please be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above.
You will have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
To start viewing posts, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Hoard of gold coins from the crusade found.

Here's your spot to post and discuss history-related news items.
Post Reply
User avatar
Divia
Bibliomaniac
Posts: 4435
Joined: August 2008
Location: Always Cloudy, Central New York

Hoard of gold coins from the crusade found.

Post by Divia » Wed July 11th, 2012, 3:28 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/hoard-gold-coins- ... 26841.html

Love this stuff :)
News, views, and reviews on books and graphic novels for young adult.
http://yabookmarks.blogspot.com/
Top
User avatar
LoveHistory
Bibliomaniac
Posts: 3751
Joined: September 2008
Location: Wisconsin, USA
Contact:
Contact LoveHistory

Post by LoveHistory » Fri July 13th, 2012, 7:33 pm

Cool find.

Nothing like that in Wisconsin.
Top
User avatar
Margaret
Bibliomaniac
Posts: 2440
Joined: August 2008
Interest in HF: I can't answer this in 100 characters. Sorry.
Favourite HF book: Checkmate, the final novel in the Lymond series
Preferred HF: Literary novels. Late medieval and Renaissance.
Location: Catskill, New York, USA
Contact:
Contact Margaret

Post by Margaret » Sat July 14th, 2012, 12:38 am

A hundred and eight of them! Those Knights Hospitaler weren't exactly poverty-stricken, I guess. The coins look like they could have been minted yesterday. Thanks for the link, Divia!
Browse over 5000 historical novel listings (probably well over 5000 by now, but I haven't re-counted lately) and over 700 reviews at www.HistoricalNovels.info
Top
User avatar
Divia
Bibliomaniac
Posts: 4435
Joined: August 2008
Location: Always Cloudy, Central New York

Post by Divia » Sat July 14th, 2012, 3:57 am

NP

Yeah I was shocked by how good they looked too. :eek:
News, views, and reviews on books and graphic novels for young adult.
http://yabookmarks.blogspot.com/
Top
User avatar
DianeL
Bibliophile
Posts: 1029
Joined: May 2011
Location: Midatlantic east coast, United States
Contact:
Contact DianeL

Post by DianeL » Sat July 14th, 2012, 11:52 pm

Thank you for the link, Divia!
"To be the queen, she agreed to be the widow!"

***

The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers

***

http://dianelmajor.blogspot.com/
I'm a Twit: @DianeLMajor
Top
Post Reply

Return to “History in the News”