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Numismatic Auction 35 23 June 2015
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Crusader States, Principality of Antioch. Tancred. Regent, 1101-1103, 1104-1112. Æ follis (20 mm, 2.71 g). [PETRVS(?)], St. Peter standing facing, blessing with hand and holding long cross / Uncertain, slender cross. Cf. Metcalf 73-80; cf. CCS 6. VF, dark green patina. Unique.
From the Kenneth Miller Collection of Ake-Ptolemaïs and Related Biblical Coins.
The authors of CCS note that the CCS 6 type is often found overstruck on another follis of Tancred, CCS 5, but this particular coin is overstruck on a follis of Tancred, CCS 4a, showing a turbaned facing bust of Tancred holding a sword (see the example in this sale). The outline of CCS 4a can be seen quite clearly by rotating the obverse to the 4h position. The reverse is unusual. Perhaps it is that the coin is overstruck which has caused the legend to be uncertain, but in reality it appears not to be obscured but rather a new type altogether. Depending on how the coin is rotated, the letters could be E and I (or Z), or IΠ and H. There are a half-dozen similar reverse types from the first quarter century or so of the 12th century at Antioch, but nothing which this could be. This appears to be an entirely new reverse type.
From the Kenneth Miller Collection of Ake-Ptolemaïs and Related Biblical Coins.
The authors of CCS note that the CCS 6 type is often found overstruck on another follis of Tancred, CCS 5, but this particular coin is overstruck on a follis of Tancred, CCS 4a, showing a turbaned facing bust of Tancred holding a sword (see the example in this sale). The outline of CCS 4a can be seen quite clearly by rotating the obverse to the 4h position. The reverse is unusual. Perhaps it is that the coin is overstruck which has caused the legend to be uncertain, but in reality it appears not to be obscured but rather a new type altogether. Depending on how the coin is rotated, the letters could be E and I (or Z), or IΠ and H. There are a half-dozen similar reverse types from the first quarter century or so of the 12th century at Antioch, but nothing which this could be. This appears to be an entirely new reverse type.