310, Lot: 479. Estimate $400. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Imitation Bezants. 11th-12th centuries. AV Bezant (22mm, 3.86 g, 12h). Imitating a dinar of the Ayyubid caliph al-Amir from the Misr (Cairo) mint, with date of AH 506. Acre mint. Second phase, struck 1148/9-1187. "al-Imam/al-Mansur in two lines across field, "Abu Ali al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah commander of the Faithful" in inner margin; "Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim struck was this dinar in Egypt in the year 506" in outer margin / "'al/ghaya" in two lines across field, Kalima in inner margin, "Second Symbol" (Quran 9: 33) in outer margin. Balog & Yvon – (but cf. 25); CCS 3. VF, light reverse die rust.

From the RVP Collection. Ex Elvira Elisa Clain-Stefanelli Collection [sold as the Demarete Collection] (Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio 172, 13 November 2012), lot 12073.