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. indicating the mint of Misr, year "6", probably for 516 H., legible reproduction of the prototype, with longer lacunae at the end of the outer marginal legends, only the initial letter sîn remaining of the final digit of the date, Balog/Yvon 25; Metcalf 119. 3.98 g, specific gravity 16.1. Small hole.
Good very fine
Ex Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. auction 282, 30 October 1973, lot no. 643.