CRUSADER IMITATIONS OF ARABIC COINS. KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM. Arabic Silver Struck after the Papal Interdict of 1251. Half dirham 1251 AD, 'Akkâ, in square: al-â + b / wa l-ibn, marginal segments with mint and date, duriba bi-'akkâ - (sanata alf) - wa mi'atayn (a?) - had wa khamsîn clear, rev. wa r-rûh / (lily) / al-quds, maginal segments alâh wâhid - lahu l-majd a (?) - ilâ abada - (l-abadîn), central point in obverse only. Balog/Yvon 46a; Malloy/Preston/Seltman 16; Slocum coll. 309. Metcalf -. 1.46 g. Very rare, especially with legible mint and date.
Very fine
Bought from Guy Clark, Norfolk VA, September 2004, ex Spink, N. DuQuesne Bird coll., January 1987.