CRUSADER IMITATIONS OF ARABIC COINS. KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM. Early Imitative Gold Coinage, Mint: Jerusalem. Imitation of a Fatimid dinar of the caliph al-Âmir bi-ahkâmi llâh, 495-524 H./1101-1130 AD. from the mint of Misr 516 H., perfectly legible reproduction of the prototype, with very short lacunae at the end of marginal legends (mi'a in at the end of date missing, umm-'Alî instead of Abû-'Alî). Nicol 2539; Balog/Yvon 20; Metcalf 127Var. 3.77 g, specific gravity 16.0.
Extremely fine
Bought from Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft, Zürich, May 1988.