CRUSADER IMITATIONS OF ARABIC COINS. KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM. Arabic Silver Struck after the Papal Interdict of 1251. Dirham 1253 AD, ('Akkâ), as above but obv. marginal legend ending . mi'atayn thalatha wa - khamsîn li-tajassud (53 after the incarnation). Balog/Yvon 43; Malloy/Preston/Seltman 13. cf. Metcalf p. 103 shedding doubts on the existence of the date 1253 for this dirham type, which is however very clear on this coin. 2.68 g. Very rare.
Very fine
Ex G. Hirsch Nachf., München, Auktion 195, Mai 1997, lot 1241.