CRUSADER IMITATIONS OF ARABIC COINS. KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM. Imitative Gold Coinage of Distinct Style, Mint: Accon?. Imitation of a Fatimid dinar of the caliph al-Âmir bi-ahkâmi llâh, 495-524 H./1101-1130 AD. from the mint of Misr, no date, final stage of immobilization with one dot below al-imâm / al-Mansûr in rev. centre, the letters waw-râ at the end of the caliphal title merged into mîm, the mint name reduced to the single letter sâd, no field marks in centre. Balog/Yvon 27b; Metcalf 138. 3.34 g, specific gravity 14.8. Hammered out square flan with a very short flan crack.
Good very fine
Bought from Schweizerische Kreditanstalt Bern, August 1987.