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Auction 47  23 May 2019
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Lot 232

Estimate: 400 EUR
Price realized: 420 EUR
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CRUSADER IMITATIONS OF ARABIC COINS. KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM. Arabic Silver Struck after the Papal Interdict of 1251. 2nd type: small cross in the centre, always dated 1251 H., possibly for exportation to Syria. Dirham 1251 AD., mint of 'Akkâ. in square: allâh wâhid huwa / al-îmân (interrupted by the cross) wâhid / al-ma'mûdîya wâhida (Allâh is one, He is the one confession, one baptism), margin: duriba bi-'Akkâ sanata - alf wa-mi'atayn - ahad wa-khamsîn - li-tajassud al-masîh (struck in Accon in the year 1251of the incarnation of the Messiah), reverse in square: al-ab wa l-ibn / wa r-rûh al-quds / alâh wâhid (the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost are one God), margin: lillâhi l-majd - ilâ abada - l-abadîn - amîn amîn (glory to God forever and ever, Amen). Schlumberger V 31; Balog/Yvon 45a; Metcalf 229-231; Malloy/Preston/Seltman 15var. 2.78 g. Rare. Both mint and date legible.
Very fine

Ex Münzen & Medaillen GmbH Auktion 13, Stuttgart, October 2003, lot no. 997, ex D. Cervin coll., ex Stephen Album list 50, May 1987, no. 406.
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