403, Lot: 670. Estimate $300.
Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CRUSADERS, County of Tripoli. Bohémond IV of Antioch to Bohémond VII. 1187-1287. AV Bezant (21.5mm, 3.25 g, 9h). Imitating a dinar of the Ayyubid caliph al-Mustansir. Tripolis mint. Third phase, after 1187-1260 or later. Kalima in four lines,
ali above; mint formula and AH date in outer margin; • T • above
ali; + below / Name and titles of al-Mustansir in three lines,
ma’ad above; "Second Symbol" (Quran 9: 33) in outer margin; • B • above
ma’ad. Balog & Yvon 14; Metcalf,
Crusades, 489; CCS 6. VF, deposits in devices.
Ex Album 19 (15 May 2014), lot 448.
