Watch List notes:

CRUSADERS, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Imitation Bezants. 11th-12th centuries. Pale AV Bezant (23mm, 3.26 g, 1h). Imitating a dinar of the Fatimid caliph al-Amir. Acre mint. Third phase, struck 1187(?)-1260 or later. Beginning of caliphal titles in two lines with two pellets below, continuation of name and titles in inner margin; mint formula in outer margin; [pellet below al-mansur in field] / al/ghaya in two lines across field, Kalima in inner margin, "Second Symbol" (Quran 9: 33) in outer margin. Balog & Yvon 29; Metcalf, Crusades –; CCS 5c. Toned, areas of flat strike. VF.

From the Kenneth S. Abramowitz Collection.