Watch List notes:

CRUSADERS. Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Imitation Bezants, 11th-12th centuries. Bezant (Gold, 22 mm, 3.64 g, 5 h), imitating a dinar of the Fatimid caliphal-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah (AH 495-524 = AD 1101-1130) from Misr. Early imitative coinage, before 1148/9. Pseudo-Kufic legend in inner field and outer margins. Rev. Pseudo-Kufic legend in inner field and outer margins. CCS 2. Wäckerlin, 188. Minor scrape and with light scratches, otherwise, about extremely fine.


From the collection of J. Knudsen, formed from the late 1970s to the late 1990s.