Crusader States, Cyprus (Lusignan Kingdom). Guy de Lusignan Æ Fractional Denier. 1192-1194. ✠ RЄX GV[ID]O D, crowned facing bust; pellets flanking / ✠ Є IЄRVSALЄO, domed Church of the Holy Sepulchre. CCS 32 (Jerusalem); Metcalf, Crusades 1995, 628 (Cyprus); Schl. III, 21 (Jerusalem); Tziambazis 36 (Cyprus). 0.98g, 16mm, 3h.
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.