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Numismatic Auction 35  23 June 2015
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Lot 365

Estimate: 50 USD
Price realized: 53 USD
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Crusader States. 11th-13th centiuries. PB token (13 mm, 1.18 g). Acre mint(?). Stylized cross / Star of five-rays with pellet at end of each ray; at center and between rays of star, pellet-in-annulet. Cf. Metcalf pp. 306-7 with illus., and nos. 1229-30; cf. Rahmani & Spaer, INJ 3 (1965/6), 73. aVF, green patina. Rare.

From the Kenneth Miller Collection of Ake-Ptolemaïs and Related Biblical Coins.

There have been a few hoards of lead tokens found at Acre, thus the attribution here.
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