CRUSADER IMITATIONS OF ARABIC COINS. KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM. Imitative Gold Coinage with the Fineness of 2/3, 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. Balog/Yvon 28; Metcalf 137-141Var. 3.59 g, specific gravity 14.7. Even strike on a round flan.
About extremely fine
Bought from Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft, Zürich coin fair in October 1988.