CRUSADERS, County of Tripoli. Bohémond IV of Antioch to Bohémond VII. 1187-1287. AV Bezant (23mm, 3.71 g, 1h). 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 13; Metcalf, Crusades, 488; CCS 7. VF, areas of light toning, peripheral weak strike, flan crack."
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Stack's (10 December 1987), lot 4038.