Watch List notes:

CRUSADERS, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Imitation Bezants. 12th-13th centuries. Pale AV Bezant (22mm, 3.47 g, 4h). Imitating a dinar of the Fatimid caliph al-Amir. Acre mint. Third phase, struck 1187(?)-1260 or later. Beginning of caliphal titles in two lines, continuation of name and titles in inner margin; mint formula in outer margin; pellet below al-mansur in field / al/ghaya in two lines across field, Kalima in inner margin, "Second Symbol" (Quran 9: 33) in outer margin. Balog & Yvon 28; cf. Metcalf, Crusades 127 (for type, but of finer style); CCS 5b. VF.


From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind, purchased from Andy Singer. Ex Davissons 17 (26 June 2002), lot 41; Classical Numismatic Review XXIII, 2 (Fall/Winter 1998), no. 88 (part of).