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, without cross in the middle of the second line on the obverse, a crescent between annulets as emission mark at 12 o'clock in the double circles on obverse. Schlumberger V 22Var.; Blancard 1880, I 2; Balog/Yvon 16; Metcalf 488Var. 3.65 g, specific gravity 13.7. Very rare.
Very fine
Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG Basel, list 376, March 1976, no. 13.