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| | Fitzwilliam Museum: Coins and Medals - The Normans |
 | | Roger's principal legacy is that he succeeded in bringing the various states of Sicily and southern Italy together as a single political unit, governed after is death in 1154 by his descendants for a further forty years, until the German Emperor Henry VI deposed the last Norman king, William III, in 1194. |
 | | Gold tarì of Salerno, Roger Borsa (1085-1111), with the letter 'R', for Roger, in the centre of the obverse, and the letter 'B', for Borsa, in the centre of the reverse. |
 | | Roger became king in 1130, and two years later, he began to strike a new type of 'Christian' tarì in Sicily that identified him on the obverse by his new title, 'al-malik' ('king'), and carried on the reverse a Greek cross with the inscription IC XC NI KA in the angles, meaning 'Jesus Christ conquers'. |
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