Templar Gold Coins
The Knights Templar were a military based order of monks in the 12th and 13th century.
They were also Bankers and issued their own gold coins and they controlled almost all the ports and trade throughout the Mediterranean.
They were also Bankers and issued their own gold coins and they controlled almost all the ports and trade throughout the Mediterranean.
The coins were hammered and were about the same size and value of English French and Italian Gold coins of the same period so that they could be use interchangeably in commerce and for ransom.
Rumurs of Templar Gold aboud and especially in the South of France.
After the Templars Order was aboished,Knights Templar fled from France and ended up in place as as far apart as Portugal and India.
Some Chapters of the Knights Templar started their own orders and this is one posible root of early Freemasonry.
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