3 on the Mohs scale, is that like Air Supply’s, I’m All Out of Love or Styx’s Renegade?
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The phrase translates as something like:
To maintain/preserve oneself in defiance of all (opposing) powers/forces,.
or “despite all opposing forces”
Essentially it’s “We shall overcome”…
Actually thinking about it “To prevail against all odds” is probably a better if less literal translation. More familiar terminology to English speakers although it does introduce the wagering element which the original doesn’t have.
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Of course the internet has you covered already:
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I don’t think that portrait is on any UK coins - it isn’t one of these: https://www.royalmint.com/discover/royalty/the-royal-portraits/
Medieval France struck leather coins (though with a small amount of silver in the middle) on several occasions- most notably when there was a national shortage of silver because they had paid the English a literal king’s ransom to get King Jean II “the Good” back after he was captured at the Battle of Poitiers.
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But gold coins were common, and therefore boring.
The people who made the bismuth coin were trying to make a tungsten one, but were having trouble with it.
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