CRUSADERS. Principality of Achaea. Guillaume II de Villehardouin. 1246-1278. Billon denier tournois. .8 gm. 18 mm. Glarenza (modern Kyllini in Elis). Cross pattée; +G• PRINCEPS / Châtel tournois; •+•CLARENTIA•. Metcalf, Crusades 922. Tzamalis Φ 59. Wäckerlin 395. Good Very Fine; fresh silvery gray surfaces; well centered on an even round flan.

The Crusades were a series of military campaigns largely designed by Christians to recover the Holy Land from Islamic rule. Eight major expeditions occurred primarily between 1096 and 1291.