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Triton XVII Sessions 3 & 4 8 January 2014
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CRUSADERS, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. temp. Sybelle. 1186-1190. BI Denier (18mm, 1.27 g, 4h). Struck during the siege of Jerusalem, 1187. + T[VR]RI[S] DAVIT (legend retrograde), Tower of David / + V[VЄPVLChRVM] DOMINI, view of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Slocum 288; cf. C.J. Sabine, "Numismatic iconography of the Tower of David and the Holy Sepulchre," NC 1979, pl. 17, 3; N. du Quesne Bird, "Two deniers from Jerusalem, Jordan," NumCirc LXXIII.5 (May 1965), p. 109; Metcalf, Crusades, p. 77; CCS 51. Fine, toned. Very rare, one of eleven examples known.