CRUSADER IMITATIONS OF ARABIC COINS. COUNTY OF TRIPOLIS. Fourth Phase, 1251-1287. Bezant Tripolaz, immobilized imitation of a dinar of al-Mustansir billâh, type Nicol I1, with Latin letters oBo on reverse and oTo on obverse above four lines of stylized script in double circle, a cross in the middle of the second line on the obverse, no emission marks in the double circles. Schlumberger V 24; Balog/Yvon 14; Malloy/Preston/Seltman p. 125 no. 8; Metcalf 489. 3.18 g, specific gravity 13.6.
Good very fine
Bought from Münzen und Medaillen AG, at Zürich coin fair, October 1993.