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Auction 47 23 May 2019
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CRUSADER IMITATIONS OF ARABIC COINS. KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM. Latin Clipped Dinars (qurrâda), Mint: Probably Jerusalem. Baldwin III or Amaury 1163-1174, Dinar, square clipped flan with one round side of the flattened rod and three clipped sides. Obv. Octafoil within double circle, marginal legend visible . :EH.(perhaps end of DE IERVSALEM?), rev. Hexagram in circle, in margin visible .[RE]X .(end of AMALRICVS REX?). Brady, ANS Museum Notes 23, 1978, pl. 29 no. 40, Metcalf 243. 1.14 g, specific gravity 13.1.
Very fine
Ex Baldwin's, London, Auction 68, September 2010, lot 3896 (ex Andreas Trappendreher coll.). Metcalf has supported, although not verified, a theory that such gold pieces which are exclusively known from small clippings, each showing only a few letters and a small part of the design, were specifically produced for offerings by pilgrims at the holy sepulchre. He also pointed out that they were apparently in circulation in areas of the kingdom of Jerusalem which were far away from the centres of pilgrimage. It should be noted however that it was common practice in the Islamic East to use both complete gold coins and their clippings by weight, not by tale, proven by the weights of the coins, by hoards and single finds and by textual evidence. It should not be astonishing that the kingdom of Jerusalem continued a practice which was long established.
Very fine
Ex Baldwin's, London, Auction 68, September 2010, lot 3896 (ex Andreas Trappendreher coll.). Metcalf has supported, although not verified, a theory that such gold pieces which are exclusively known from small clippings, each showing only a few letters and a small part of the design, were specifically produced for offerings by pilgrims at the holy sepulchre. He also pointed out that they were apparently in circulation in areas of the kingdom of Jerusalem which were far away from the centres of pilgrimage. It should be noted however that it was common practice in the Islamic East to use both complete gold coins and their clippings by weight, not by tale, proven by the weights of the coins, by hoards and single finds and by textual evidence. It should not be astonishing that the kingdom of Jerusalem continued a practice which was long established.