Crusader States, Cyprus (Lusignan Kingdom). Guy de Lusignan Æ Fractional Denier. 1192-1194. [✠ R]ЄX GV[IDO D], crowned facing bust; pellets flanking / [✠] Є IЄRVSA[LЄO], domed Church of the Holy Sepulchre. M&P pl. 16, 4-6 (Cyprus); Tziambazis 36 (Cyprus); CCS 32 (Jerusalem); Metcalf, Crusades 1995, 628 (Cyprus); Schl. III, 21 (Jerusalem). 0.92g, 17mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Rare.
From a private European collection.
Usually attributed to Jerusalem, these coins have been found in Cyprus in sufficiently large numbers to support Metcalf's reassignment to a Cypriot origin in the Corpus of Lusignan Coinage.