CRUSADER IMITATIONS OF ARABIC COINS. COUNTY OF TRIPOLIS. Second Phase, ca. 1147-1187. Bezant Tripolaz, immmobilized imitation of a dinar of al-Mustansir billâh, type Nicol I1, both sides legends reduced to four lines of rather illegible script, the groundline of the marginal legend on obverse appears as a third concentric circle around the field, emission marks between the two (inner) circles around the field: a double dot and on the opposite side a single dot. Lavoix 7Var.; Balog/Yvon 6 Var.; Metcalf -. 4.48 g, Specific gravity 15.7. Very rare.
Extremely fine
Ex Baldwin's Islamic Coins Auction 20, 8 May 2012 lot no. 448.