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Triton XXV  11-12 Jan 2022
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Lot 1111

Estimate: 4000 USD
Price realized: 11 000 USD
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CRUSADERS, Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus. James II. 1460-1473. AR Gros (25.5mm, 3.85 g, 6h). Type 6. IAC O BS DЄI G, James, crowned and wearing a tunic, right on horseback, holding sword over shoulder; annulet and double annulet stops / + R IЄRVS CIPRI ЄT ARMIA, Jerusalem Cross; double annulet stops. M&P Type E, 11 (dies A/i); Metcalf, Crusades, 806; Slocum 736 (this coin); Schlumberger, p. 202 and pl. VII, 22; CCS 159. Toned, a couple of hairline flan cracks with hard green deposits. EF. Very rare.

From the Rome on the Euphrates Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXII.2 (Spring/Summer 1997), no. 59; John J. Slocum Collection (Sotheby's, 6 March 1997), lot 736, purchased from A.J. Seltman, April 1973.
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