{"id":26616,"date":"2017-09-09T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T19:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26616"},"modified":"2017-09-09T15:59:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T19:59:38","slug":"king-offas-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26616","title":{"rendered":"King Offa's Coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intriguing-history.com\/king-offas-gold-coin\/\">There resides in the British Museum<\/a> in London, one of the most intriguing gold coins ever minted. It was bought in Rome about a hundred years ago and this is important when considering the purpose of the coin.<\/p>\n<p>The gold coin of Offa, king of Mercia [England, 757-796 AD], is a unique object because it imitates a gold dinar of the caliph al-Mansur. Although the Arabic inscription is not copied perfectly, the declaration that \u2018There is no Deity but Allah, The One, Without Equal, and Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah,\u2019 is clear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Offas-Gold-Coin.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There resides in the British Museum in London, one of the most intriguing gold coins ever minted. It was bought in Rome about a hundred years ago and this is important when considering the purpose of the coin. The gold coin of Offa, king of Mercia [England, 757-796 AD], is a unique object because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26618,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616\/revisions\/26618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}