Watch List notes:

CRUSADER IMITATIONS OF ARABIC COINS. KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM. Ayyubid Dirhams Struck in Accon with the Name of the King of Damascus as-Sâlih I. Dirham 645 H., "Dimashq" with the name of as-Sâlih Ismâ'îl, second reign in Damascus 637-643 H./1239-1245 AD under nominal suzerainty of the Abbasid caliph al-Mustansir (died 640 H/1242 AD, in square: al-malik as-sâlih / 'imâd ad-dunyâ wa d-dîn / Ismâ'îl ibn Abî-Bakr, in marginal segments: bismillâh - duriba bi-dimashq - sanata sittumi'a wa - kha[m]sa wa-arba'în, rev. in square: al-imâm / al-Mustansîr / billâh abû-ja'far / al-ma[n]sûr amîr al-mu'minîn, in marginal segments: blâ ilâha illâ - llâh wahdau -lâ sharîka lahu - muhammad rasû[lu l]lâh. Balog/Yvon -; Michael Bates, Thirteenth Century Crusader Imitations of Ayyubid Silver Coinage: A preliminary survey, Studies in Honor of George C. Miles, Beirut 1974p. 393- type IA1 (interpreting the date as 641 H.); Metcalf -. Rare in this condition. A perfectly centered strike of good style.
About extremely fine

Bought from Dr. Hubert Lanz, München, in March 2012.