CRUSADER IMITATIONS OF ARABIC COINS. COUNTY OF TRIPOLIS. Second Phase, ca. 1147-1187. Bezant Tripolaz, immobilized imitation of a dinar of al-Mustansir billâh, type Nicol I1, both sides legends reduced to four lines of generally faulty script, emission mark only on obverse at 12 o'clock between the two circles around the field: an annulet or a small diamond. Lavoix 7Var.; Balog/Yvon 3 Var.; Metcalf -. 3.65 g, Specific gravity 16.6. Very rare.
Very fine
Ex H.H. Kricheldorf Auktion XXVIII, Stuttgart, June 1974, lot no. 347.